Disrupting dignity : rethinking power and progress in LGBTQ lives / Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engel, Stephen M., author.

Lyle, Timothy S., author.

Series:

LGBTQ politics.

NYU scholarship online.

LGBTQ politics

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--United States--History.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Gay rights--United States--History.

Gay rights.

Dignity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the 'equal dignity' of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In this book, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity - and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms - became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential.

Contents:

pt. I Dignity's disciplining power : the politics of public health from AIDS to PrEP

Fucking with dignity : bathhouse closures and the state's degradation of queer kinship during the early AIDS crisis

Do you swallow? : possibilities for queer transgression in new contexts

pt. II Promoting sameness or embracing difference : distinct visions of dignity in popular culture

Isn't straight still the default? : the politics of restraint in Love, Simon

Doing the most : Pose and the value of queer excess

pt. III Respect versus respectability : the Court's definitions of dignity

Liberal rulings for conservative ends : manipulating dignity from decriminalization to marriage equality

Is dignity a dead end? : alternative notions of dignity and the promise of our anti-racist Constitution

Conclusion: Doing dignity differently : an anti-stigma approach.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-3616-8

OCLC:

1245673860