LGBTQ politics : a critical reader / ediited by Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brettschneider, Marla, editor.

Burgess, Susan, editor.

Keating, Christine, editor.

Series:

LGBTQ Politics ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Civil rights--United States.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Political activity--United States.

Sexual minorities--Civil rights.

Sexual minorities--Political activity.

LGBTQ+ civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 621 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2017]

Summary:

A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science, which has been slower than most disciplines to study the complexity of queer politics, must grapple with the shifting landscape of LGBTQ rights and inclusion. LGBTQ Politics analyzes both the successes and obstacles to building the LGBTQ movement over the past twenty years, offering analyses that point to possibilities for the movement’s future. Essays cover a range of topics, including activism, law, and coalition-building, and draw on subfields such as American politics, comparative politics, political theory, and international relations. LGBTQ Politics presents the full range of methodological, ideological, and substantive approaches to LGBTQ politics that exist in political science. Analyses focused on mainstream institutional and elite politics appear alongside contributions grounded in grassroots movements and critical theory. While some essays celebrate the movement’s successes and prospects, others express concerns that its democratic basis has become undermined by a focus on funding power over people power, attempts to fragment the LGBTQ movement from racial, gender and class justice, and a persistent attachment to single-issue politics. A comprehensive, thought-provoking collection, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader will give rise to continued critical discussion of the parameters of LGBTQ politics.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Introduction

2. Rethinking GLBT as a Political Category in U.S. Politics

3. Politics outside the Law: Transgender Lives and the Challenge of Legibility

4. The Treatment and Prevention of HIV Bodies: The Contemporary Politics and Science of a Thirty- Year- Old Epidemic

5. Queering Reproductive Justice: Toward a Theory and Praxis for Building Intersectional Political Alliances

6. The “B” Isn’t Silent: Bisexual Communities and Political Activism

7. Embodying Margin to Center: Intersectional Activism among Queer Liberation Organizations

8. From “Don’t Drop the Soap” to PREA Standards: Reducing Sexual Victimization of LGBT People in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems

9. Our Stories

10. The Politics of LGBTQ Politics in APSA: A History (and Its) Lesson(s)

11. Power, Politics, and Difference in the American Political Science Association: An Intersectional Analysis of the New Orleans Siting Controversy

12. Where Has the Field Gone? An Investigation of LGBTQ Political Science Research

13. Unfulfilled Promises: How Queer Feminist Political Theory Could Transform Political Science

14. The How, Why, and Who of LGBTQ “Victory”: A Critical Examination of Change in Public Attitudes Involving LGBTQ People

15. Equality or Transformation? LGBT Political Attitudes and Priorities and the Implications for the Movement

16. Case Studies of Black Lesbian and Gay Candidates: Winning Identity Politics in the Obama Era

17. Equality in the House: The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and the Substantive Representation of LGBTQ Interests

18. Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Group Stereotypes, and the News Media: An Experimental Design

19. Marriage Equality: Assimilationist Victory or Pluralist Defeat?

20. The State of Marriage? How Sociolegal Context Affects Why Same- Sex Couples Marry

21. Queer Sensibilities and Other Fagchild Tools

22. You Don’t Belong Here, Either: Same- Sex Marriage Politics and LGBT/Q Youth Homelessness Activism in Chicago

23. Political Science and the Study of LGBT Social Movements in the Global South

24. Homonationalism and the Comparative Politics of LGBTQ Rights

25. Top Down, Bottom Up, or Meeting in the Middle? The U.S. Government in International LGBTQ Human Rights Advocacy

26. Pink Links: Visualizing the Global LGBTQ Network

27. Whither the LGBTQ Movement in a Post– Civil Rights Era?

28. Scouting for Normalcy: Merit Badges, Cookies, and American Futurity

29. Queering the Feminist Dollar: A History and Consideration of the Third Wave Fund as Activist Philanthropy

30. Single- Sex Colleges and Transgender Discrimination: The Politics of Checking a “Male” or “Female” Box to Get into College

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-4946-4

9781479849468 (electronoc bok)

OCLC:

1000598155