@article{ref1,
title="Prohibiting the queer body: gender affirmation, female genital cutting, and the promise of gender intelligibility",
journal="Critical criminology",
year="2021",
author="Mitchell, Matthew and Rogers, Juliet",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="707-721",
abstract="Legal regulations of the body produce and seek to protect specific imaginations of the body in an idealized form--that is, not only what a body is but also what it ought to be. In this article, we apply a queer criminological approach to interrogate the regulation of the body-that-ought-to-be that has animated two legal interventions regarding body modification: the criminalization of female genital cutting (FGC), often described in law as female genital mutilation (FGM), and the regulation of gender-affirming manual hormone use. By analyzing discourses that have circulated in Australian law regarding both practices, we show how the legitimacy of a given body modification has been tied to that modification's potential to either threaten or affirm a body's capacity to produce intelligible gender. We contend, on this basis, that the body that the law has sought to protect in these instances is a body that is not queer.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1205-8629",
doi="10.1007/s10612-021-09580-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-021-09580-2"
}