Transforming Citizenships : Transgender Articulations of the Law / Isaac West.
West, Isaac, author.
2013
HQ77.9 .W47 2016
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Title Transforming Citizenships : Transgender Articulations of the Law / Isaac West.
Author West, Isaac, author.
ISBN 9781479826872
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479832149.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 2 black and white illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9781479832149.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ77.9 .W47 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.768
Summary 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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Series Sexual Cultures ; 25
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9781479832149
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Performative Repertoires of Citizenship
2. PISSAR's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics
3. INTRAAventions in the Heartland
4. GENDA Trouble
5. In Defense of an Impure Transgender Politics
Notes
Index
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