Anna Marie Smith is Associate Professor of contemporary social and political theory in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her interests are in the fields of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender studies, feminist theory, law and society, post-structuralist theories of identity, power and ideology, and theoretical approaches to race and racism. She has published Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary. (London, Routledge, 1998) and New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994) and is currently working on Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation. (Under contract with Cambridge University Press).