Aids, Law, and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Rollins (0000-0003-0178-7258, Queens University of Charlotte, corresponding author), Joe Rollins |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-191 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1512196 |
| OpenAlex | W1969718256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 36 |
Models of judicial decisionmaking have traditionally relied on legal, political, and contextual variables, emphasizing judges' background, litigants' rights claims, and the relative social status of the parties involved. A recent scholarly expansion has brought cultural variables into the equation, indicating that judicial scholarship might usefully include narrative and rhetoric as measures of legal consciousness. This project examines AIDS-related litigation from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals between 1983 and 1995, emphasizing the social construction of sexuality. It uses content-based coding and stepwise probit analysis to evaluate the importance of controlling for language that depicts AIDS as a "gay disease" and its association with death and plague metaphors
Human sexuality · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy
Men's Adultery as Sickness
Negotiating risk-group categorization and the co-production of blood safety
Viral forgetting, or how to have ignorance in a syndemic
Social Construction and Policy Design
The relationality of law and culture
Introduction to special issue
HIV Status and Coming Out among African American Gay and Bisexual Men
Multidimensional Constructions of Target Groups and Their Political Implications
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation
The Scientific and the Social in Implementing Atkins v. Virginia
Culture and Law
"Borrowing from the Women's Movement "for Reasons of Public Security
The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings
Disease metaphors in new epidemics
Disability, Rights, and the Construction of Sexuality in Tort Claims
Blasé
A guide to critical legal studies
Getting justice and getting even
Blood Feuds
The Common Place of Law
The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior
Law and the Language of Identity
Rights talk
Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Court Management of Aids Disputes
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Policy making by the lower federl courts and the bureaucracy
Gaylegal Narratives
Divisions of Opinion Among Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court, 1939–1941
Performativity Trouble
Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others
Studying the Iceberg from its Tip
Negotiating Motherhood
Aids
"Queer Acts and the Politics of "Direct Address
The Dialogics of Legal Meaning
Political Claims, Legal Derailment, and the Context of Disputes
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Social, Cultural, and Temporal Dynamics of the Aids Case Congregation
Social Construction of Target Populations
Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically
Contextual Influences on Court Outcomes
Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |