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Chapter 5 traces how Western discourses of statecraft as mancraft address the question: Who is the ‘normal homosexual’ in international relations? It analyzes how the United States under the Obama administration figures the ‘LGBT’ as the ‘gay rights holder’ and the ‘gay patriot’, particularly through Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s ‘Gay rights are human rights’ speech. Clinton’s speech maps the world into normal states versus pathological states according to the question: How well do you treat your homosexuals? What makes this ‘normal homosexual’ and the ‘normal’ and ‘pathological’ states possible is the way homonormativity has become nationalized and internationalized. The figure of the ‘perverse homosexual’ is a figure whose unruliness and irrationality threatens national patriotisms and national and international neoliberalisms. Thus, the ‘underdeveloped’, the ‘undevelopable’, the ‘unwanted im/migrant’ and the ‘terrorist’ continue to be excluded while the ‘gay rights holder’ and the ‘gay patriot’ are celebrated, included, and protected.

The introduction sets out the the rule that there is ‘no property in the human body’ and the growth of exceptions to it. The aim of the book, to determine the appropriate legal status of bodily material, is then explained, and its three inquiries introduced. The first inquiry concerns the distinction between ownership as a functional relationship between a person and thing, and the legal relationships between a rights-holder and duty-bearer that are constructed to protect ownership relationships, the second inquiry concerns an ambiguity in the body, and the third inquiry concerns a distinction between different sets, or spheres, of value. It then explains how individual chapters will address these questions, before setting out the parameters of the inquiry.

The conclusion gives the history of the 'no property rule' relating to the human body and its parts, and the implications thereof. The inadequacies of the law in providing protection to entitlements to bodily material meant that exceptions have emerged. These exceptions incorporated both Lockean and Hegelian reasoning. The result is a property law that is unusually ambiguous. Finally, the conclusion sets out the aim of the book's recommendations: to attempt to resist the coupling of the exclusionary boundary with contingency rights in the law that applies to the use and storage of bodily material.