Normal life : administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law / Dean Spade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spade, Dean, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Trans people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages)

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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"-- Back cover.

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".

Notes:

Originally published by South End Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822374794

082237479X

OCLC:

1139393476