The Politics of Right Sex : Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights /

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"While the growing attention to trans rights and the development of trans specific interest groups suggest that the time is right for a trans rights movement akin to prior civil rights movements, The Politics of Right Sex explores the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Daum, Courtenay W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pressure groups > United States.
Gender nonconformity > Political aspects > United States.
Transgender people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Transgender people > Civil rights > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2017-
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Binary identities and the construction of privileged versus transgressive bodies
  • The complexity of gender identities and the dangers of the politics of right sex
  • The illegibility of trans bodies : how the mandatory reporting of gender markers on identity documents facilitates governmentality
  • "No men in women's bathrooms:" de jure and de facto policing of sex-segregated bathrooms as a means of social control
  • The war on solicitation and intersectional subjection : how quality of life policing is used as a tool to control trans populations
  • The viability and efficacy of a trans politics of rights
  • Trans and queer counterpublics and transformative change : collective liberation not the politics of right sex.

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