The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex /

• Main Author: Hutton, Christopher (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Sex and law.; Applied linguistics.; Semantics.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Language and Gender.; Gender, Sexuality and Law.; Applied Linguistics.; Self and Identity.

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 recogniti...