Law tends to have a rather fixed view of the proper or valid legal subject. This collection challenges law's inherent constructions of normality and the 'normal' subject. Taken together, the articles cover issues as diverse as marginalized identities and agencies, transnational families, the legal position of vulnerable citizens, the complex relations of care and work, as well as gender and queer aspects in law. The book looks at the nation state and citizenship, and relates these public and political issues to the most nuanced and personal of questions, such as gender, intimate relations and private identities.

1. Identities and Intersections: Critical Perspectives on the Person of the Law, Sanna Mustasaari, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Anne Griffiths I: Politics, power and subjectivity 2. The Ancient Subject of Speech, Samuli Hurri 3. Criminal Disenfranchisement and Political Capacity, Pablo Marshall 4. "Electoral Shenanigans": The Constituted Electorate, the Constituent People, and the Porous State, Panu Minkkinen 5. Who Belongs? The Turkish Citizen Subject in Turmoil, Kati Nieminen II: Recognizing "the different" subject 6. The GenderQueer in UK Law: Why Current Laws are Insufficient, Carolynn Gray 7. Best Interests of the Child in Family Reunification - A Citizenship Test Disguised?, Sanna Mustasaari 8. Protecting a Person with Dementia through Restrictions of Freedom? Notions of Autonomy in the Theory and Practice of Elder Care, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen 9. What to do with the Other in Human Rights Law? Ethics of Alterity versus Ethics of Care, Dorota Gozdecka and Sanna Koulu III: Personhood, property and contribution 10. Families, Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Personhood and Property in Botswana, Anne Griffiths 11. The Breadwinner, the Homemaker and the Worker/Carer: New Stereotypes for Old?, Jane Mair 12. From Obedience to Initiative? Precarious Work and Changing Subjectivities in Labour Law Discourse, Marjo Ylhäinen 13. Human Dignity Mediated: Personhood, Humanity, and the Logic of Property in Law and Bioethics, Ukri Soirila

Anne Griffiths is Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sanna Mustasaari is based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen is based at the University of Eastern Finland.