Transforming citizenships : transgender articulations of the law /

Transforming citizenships : transgender articulations of the law /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	West, Isaac, author.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2013] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 235 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Sexual cultures Sexual cultures.
Subject:	Transgender people -- Identity. Transgender people -- Civil rights. Transgender people -- Political activity. Transsexuals -- Civil rights. Transsexuals -- Political activity. Transgender people -- Civil rights. Transgender people -- Identity. Transsexuals -- Civil rights. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208181

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ISBN:	9781479826872 1479826871 9781479832149 1479832146 9781479818921 1479818925
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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. Isaac West is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa"--
Other form:	Print version: West, Isaac. Transforming citizenships. New York, London : New York University Press, [2014] 9781479832149
Standard no.:	10.18574/9781479826872

Table of Contents:

Introduction: transgender citizenships
Performative repertoires of citizenship
PISSAR's critically queer and disabled politics
INTRAAventions in the heartland
GENDA trouble
In defense of an impure transgender politics.