Daum The Politics of Right Sex

Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7888-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daum, Courtenay W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Transgressive Bodies

1. Binary Identities and the Construction of Privileged versus Transgressive Bodies

2. The Complexity of Gender Identities and the Dangers of the Politics of Right Sex

Part Two: Governmentality

3. The Illegibility of Trans Bodies: How the Mandatory Reporting of Gender Markers on Identity Documents Facilitates Governmentality

4. "No Men in Women's Bathrooms": De Jure and De Facto Policing of Sex-Segregated Bathrooms as a Means of Social Control

5. The War on Solicitation and Intersectional Subjection: How Quality of Life Policing Is Used as a Tool to Control Trans Populations

Part Three: The Limits of Trans Rights

6. The Viability and Efficacy of a Trans Politics of Rights

7. Trans and Queer Counterpublics and Transformative Change: Collective Liberation not the Politics of Right Sex

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Courtenay W. Daum is Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. She is the coauthor (with Leslie F. Goldstein, Judith A. Baer, and Terri Susan Fine) of The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women, Fourth Edition and the coeditor (with Robert J. Duffy and John A. Straayer) of State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century.