Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
By Dean Spade.
Description
Waitwhat’s wrong with rights?Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and equality” strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizationsagitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state and its legal, policing, and social services apparatuseven its policies and documents of belonging and non-belongingare neutral and benevolent. While we all have to comply with the gender binaries set forth ...
ISBN(s)
0896087964, 9780896087965
