TY - JOUR
T1 - Discipline, punishment and the homosexual in law
AU - Gleeson, Kate
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - This article examines the creation and legacy of the 1957 Wolfenden Report, arguing that current trends to simplistically address the Report, along with a long standing academic focus on Foucault and the nineteenth century, have disregarded the productive and revolutionary nature of its recommendations enacted in the Sexual Offences Act 1967. Contrary to the common emphasis placed on Victorian medical discourse, and the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde, it was the Wolfenden Report and the twentieth century that created the homosexual identity in law - an identity created not with a view to freedom, as is regularly assumed, but with the objective of the control of recalcitrant bodies in the forms of men's homosexual sex, and women's prostitution.
AB - This article examines the creation and legacy of the 1957 Wolfenden Report, arguing that current trends to simplistically address the Report, along with a long standing academic focus on Foucault and the nineteenth century, have disregarded the productive and revolutionary nature of its recommendations enacted in the Sexual Offences Act 1967. Contrary to the common emphasis placed on Victorian medical discourse, and the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde, it was the Wolfenden Report and the twentieth century that created the homosexual identity in law - an identity created not with a view to freedom, as is regularly assumed, but with the objective of the control of recalcitrant bodies in the forms of men's homosexual sex, and women's prostitution.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35348859465&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10991-007-9028-z
DO - 10.1007/s10991-007-9028-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35348859465
VL - 28
SP - 327
EP - 347
JO - Liverpool Law Review
JF - Liverpool Law Review
SN - 0144-932X
IS - 3
ER -