Regulating Intimacy

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Overview 5

CHAPTER ONE: Constitutional Privacy in the Domain of Intimacy: The Battle over Reproductive Rights 22

The Feminist Egalitarian Critique of Privacy Analysis 28

The Communitarian Critique 42

Privacy as Decisional Autonomy: The Isolated, Disembedded Self? 44

Privacy and Identity 49

A Constructivist Justification of the New Privacy Rights 52

The Scope of Privacy: Bringing the Body Back In 57

Excursus: On Property, Privacy, and Legal Paradigms 64

Conclusion 74

CHAPTER TWO: Is There a Duty of Privacy? Law, Sexual Orientation, and the Dilemmas of Difference 77

The Neo-Republican Revival of Privacy Discourse 78

The "New Military Policy": Privacy Protection for Gays and Lesbians? 84

The Right to Privacy and the "Epistemology of the Closet" 86

The Construction of a Stigmatized Identity: Bowers v. Hardwick 94

The Personhood Justification: Normative Paradoxes 97

The Libertarian Solution: Morally Indifferent Sex and the Harm Principle 101

Conclusion 116

CHAPTER THREE: Sexual Harassment Law: Equality vs. Expressive Freedom and Personal Privacy? 125

The Development of Sexual Harassment Law 127

The Hegemonic Feminist Sex-Desire/Subordination Model 129

Liberal Objections 132

Liberal Feminist Alternatives: Redefining the Harm 134

Postmodern Feminist Reframings: Criticizing Legal Normalization 136

Postmodern Feminist Reframings, Part 2: Redescribing the Role of Law 139

Legal Paradigms: An Explanation and a Way Out? 142

Conclusion 149

CHAPTER FOUR: The Debate over the Reflexive Paradigm 151

The Systems-Theoretical Model of Reflexive Law 153

The Action-Theoretical Approach: A Procedural Paradigm 157

A Proposed Synthesis: The Sociological Reflexivity Model 164

Responsive Law 169

Dangers of Reflexive/Procedural/Responsive Law: Arbitrariness and/or Normalization 172

Reconceptualizing the Reflexive Paradigm: A Synthetic, Pluralist Approach 175

CHAPTER FIVE: Status or Contract? Beyond the Dichotomy 180

The Traditional Status Regime Regulating Intimacy 182

Privatization of Family Law 184

The Communitarian Critique of Private Ordering: Toward a New Status Order 187

The Limits of Status 196

Conclusion 197

Notes 205

Cases Cited 261

Bibliography 263

Index 279