Book Cover
E-book
Author Spade, Dean, 1977- author.

Title Normal life : administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law / Dean Spade
Edition Revised and expanded edition
Published Durham [North Carolina] ; London : Duke University Press, 2015
©2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: rights, movements, and critical trans politics -- Trans law and politics on a neoliberal landscape -- What's wrong with rights? -- Rethinking transphobia and power : beyond a rights framework -- Administrating gender -- Law reform and movement building -- Conclusion: "this is a protest, not a parade."
Summary "In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that are raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes the assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence. Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for mere legal inclusion, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-205) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Online resource (HeinOnline, September 19, 2022)
digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Transgender people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Civil rights movements -- United States.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Civil rights movements
Transgender people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Transsexualität
Transgender
Rechtsstellung
Transpersoner -- juridik och lagstiftning.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015016311
ISBN 082237479X
9780822374794