AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality. AIDS and its metaphors have been judicially enlisted to patrol the boundaries of heterosexuality, producing flawed understandings of HIV/AIDS and sexuality. The proliferation of this flawed knowledge through judicial discourse has had a profound impact on the way sexuality is understood. Even more fundamentally, closer analysis exposes the ironic processes of the law whereby material reality, ignorance, and belief interact to replace unknowns with 'social facts.' The book concludes optimistically, arguing that there is political value in uncertainty.

JOE ROLLINS, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York. He has published in law and sexuality and is a contributing author in the Encyclopaedia of AIDS and Creating Change. He is a member of the Board of Directors, Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies and lives in Queens, New York.