Davina Cooper

King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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A Very Binary Drama: The Conceptual Struggle for Gender's Future

King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2019-34, feminists@law vol. 9, issue 1
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 May 2019
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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Gender, Trans, Feminism, British Gender Politics, Conceptual Conflict, Prefigurative Politics, Diversity, Domination

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Pulling the Thread of Decertification: What Challenges are Raised by the Proposal to Reform Legal Gender Status?

feminists@law vol 10(2), King's College London Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Jan 2021
Davina Cooper and Robyn Emerton
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law and King's College London, Dickson Poon School of Law
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gender, sex, law reform, positive discrimination, single-sex services, categories, gender diversity, transgender

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Taking Public Responsibility for Gender: When Personal Identity and Institutional Feminist Politics Meet

feminists@law vol 10 (2), King's College London Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jan 2021
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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sex, gender, law, registration, responsibility, institutions

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Enacting Counter-States Through Play

Contemporary Political Theory, First Online, pp. 1-9, Summer 2016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Aug 2016
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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State, Play, Prefigurative Politics

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Reimagining Gender through Equality Law: What Legal Thoughtways do Religion and Disability Offer?

Feminist Legal Studies, 2022
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Flora Renz and Davina Cooper
University of Kent and King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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gender, anti-discrimination law, equality, religion, disability

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What Does Gender Equality Need? Revisiting the Formal and Informal in Feminist Legal Politics

Journal of Law and Society 2022, 49 (4) 800-823, King's College London Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jan 2023
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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gender, formalisation, informal, legal regulation, positive action

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Towards an Adventurous Institutional Politics: The Prefigurative ‘As If’ and the Reposing of What’s Real

The Sociological Review, 2020
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jul 2020
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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gender, institutions, legal activism, prefigurative politics, radical politics

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Transformative State Publics

New Political Science 38 (3) 2016: 315-334
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Jun 2016
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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publics, counterpublics, state, left politics

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Introduction to Special Issue: Decertifying Legal Sex — Prefigurative Law Reform and the Future of Legal Gender

Feminist Legal Studies, 31, pages1–16, Open Access, March 2023
Posted: 30 Aug 2023
Davina Cooper and Flora Renz
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law and University of Kent

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Gender, Sex, law, prefigurative methods

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Crafting Prefigurative Law in Turbulent Times: Decertification, DIY Law Reform, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Prototyping

Feminist Legal Studies, 31, pages17–42, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-022-09515-4
Posted: 21 Aug 2023
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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gender law reform, feminist politics, prototyping law, DIY law and politics, slow law

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De-producing Gender: The Politics of Sex, Decertification and the Figure of Economy

Feminist Theory, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001221148639 Online First, Open Access
Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2023
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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gender, sex, birth registration, certification, economy

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Possessive Attachments: Identity Beliefs, Equality Law and the Politics of State Play

Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 115-135, 2018
Posted: 22 Jun 2018
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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gender, religious beliefs, conservative Christianity, equality law, sexuality, state, play, property, resistance

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Bringing the State Up Conceptually: Forging a Body Politics Through Anti-Gay Christian Refusal

Feminist Theory, vol. 16 no. 1 87-107, April 2015
Posted: 06 Apr 2015
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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Concepts, conservative Christianity, feminist theory, lesbian and gay equality

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Time Against Time: Normative Temporalities and the Failure of Community Labor in Local Exchange Trading Schemes

Time and Society (2013) 22(1) 31-54
Posted: 14 May 2013
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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alternative currency networks, local economics, relationship trading, community time, temporal conflict

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Up Against the Property Logic of Equality Law: Conservative Christian Accommodation Claims and Gay Rights

Feminist Legal Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2013
Posted: 21 Mar 2013
Davina Cooper and Didi Herman
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law and University of Kent - Kent Law School

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Sexuality, Anti-Discrimination Law, Equality, Religion, Belonging, Social Property, Accommodation

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Reading the State as a Multi-Identity Formation: The Touch and Feel of Equality Governance

Feminist Legal Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 3-25, April 2011
Posted: 01 May 2011
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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Touch, Governance, Equality, State, Inequality, Feeling

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Theorising Nudist Equality: An Encounter between Political Fantasy and Public Appearance

Antipode, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 326-357, March 2011
Posted: 09 Mar 2011
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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inequality, discrimination, naturism, contact, touch, public sphere

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Well, You Go There to Get Off: Visiting Feminist Care Ethics Through a Women's Bathhouse

Feminist Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 243-262, 2007
Posted: 26 Jan 2008
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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bathhouse, care, feminist ethics, lesbian, sex

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'And You Can?T Find Me Nowhere': Relocating Identity and Structure within Equality Jurisprudence

Posted: 09 Jan 2001
Davina Cooper
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

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