The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
Repairing Law
Book • 2025
Senthorun Raj's The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law examines how emotions such as anxiety, shame, fear, pain, and joy structure legal reforms and conflicts over LGBT rights.
Drawing on critical legal theory and affect scholarship, Raj develops the concept of 'emotional grammar' to trace emotions through legislation, case law, Hansard, and policy consultations.
The book analyzes case studies including freedom of religion versus non-discrimination, legal gender recognition, conversion practices, and relationships and sex education.
Raj argues for rethinking rights language—toward accessibility, social belonging, identity fluidity, and bodily integrity—so law can better repair institutional inequalities.
The work situates law as a tool among others to address homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism while urging critical engagement with the political effects of emotion.
Drawing on critical legal theory and affect scholarship, Raj develops the concept of 'emotional grammar' to trace emotions through legislation, case law, Hansard, and policy consultations.
The book analyzes case studies including freedom of religion versus non-discrimination, legal gender recognition, conversion practices, and relationships and sex education.
Raj argues for rethinking rights language—toward accessibility, social belonging, identity fluidity, and bodily integrity—so law can better repair institutional inequalities.
The work situates law as a tool among others to address homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism while urging critical engagement with the political effects of emotion.
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