Overview: Takes an interdisciplinary approach, dealing with law, language, ‘legal sex’, and social as well as intellectual history.Analyses the interplay between ordinary language legal reasoning, ‘common sense.This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of .Corbett v Corbett., a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights. The judgement was handed down in 1970, but the decision has shaped decades of debate about the law’s control and recognition of non-normative gender identities. The decision in this case – that the marriage between the
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