A new book from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group takes a radical look at sexual diversity and how our sexualities are being refashioned and repositioned.

The book, ‘Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law’, was edited by Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London; Loraine Gelsthorpe from the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Martin Johnson from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Anatomy; and Andrew Bainham from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

The book launch will be hosted by Lord Faulkner of Worcester at the House of Lords tomorrow (Thursday June 17).

The book confronts religion, education, science, medicine and the law with interesting challenges. Whilst all five disciplines appear (as both heroes and villains) in this book, the law provides the ultimate expression of a restructured codified social response to repositioned sexuality, and so it is the legal reactions that lie at the book’s heart, as seen, for example, in the new Sexual Offences Act 2003. Contributions to the book cover: this Act and its problems, same sex partnerships, treatment of sex offenders, sexuality in the workplace, prostitution, erotica, the sexuality of the young, biomedical and legal approaches to sexual orientation and intersexuality, sexual activism and socio-legal repositioning, and historical and futuristic perspectives on sexuality.

The volume emerged from a series of papers given at a meeting of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group at Pembroke College, Cambridge. The chapters evolved out of the papers presented and were woven into a coherent thematic volume by the editors.

The book will be launched in Committee Rooms A and B, the House of Lords on Thursday June 17 from 17.00-19.00.

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