Transforming Citizenships : Transgender Articulations of the Law Paperback / softback
by Isaac West
Part of the Sexual Cultures series
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Transforming Citizenships engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups.
Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law. Drawing on an expansive archive, from the correspondence of a transwoman arrested for using a public bathroom in Los Angeles in 1954 to contemporary lobbying efforts of national transgender advocacy organizations, West advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom.
When approached from this perspective, citizenship can be recuperated from its status as the bad object of queer politics to better understand how legal discourses open up sites for identification across identity categories and enable political activities that escape the analytics of heteronormativity and homonationalism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:247 pages, 2 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:02/12/2013
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- ISBN:9781479818921
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:247 pages, 2 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:02/12/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781479818921