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Yvonne Zylan
Yvonne Zylan

Associate Professor of Sociology Yvonne Zylan presented a paper at this year’s Law and Society Association’s annual meetings held in Honolulu, Hawai’i, June 5-8.  The theme of the conference was “Sociolegal Conversations across a Sea of Islands.” 

 

She gave the paper “The Salacious State: Postmodern Patriarchy and the Enforcement of the Marriage Contract” on a panel called Care and Autonomy in the Age of Austerity: Protest and Sexuality.  The paper examined two American legislative enactments from 1996: the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the Personal Responsibility, Work Opportunity, and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).

 

Zylan argued that these two pieces of legislation functioned as a policy assemblage, signaling the emergence of a form of policymaking that violates traditional distinctions between regulative and redistributive policies; and which produced a discourse emphasizing the unruliness of male sexuality.

 

In addition, Zylan chaired a panel on Rights Mobilization: Inside and Out of the Courtroom, and served as a reader on an “Author Meets Reader” session discussing UBC Faculty of Law Professor Fiona Kelly’s book, Transforming Law's Family: the Legal Regulation of Planned Lesbian Motherhood.

 

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Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena.


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