End of Straight Supremacy - Realizing Gay Liberation

Informationen zum Autor Shannon Gilreath is Professor for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law at the Wake Forest University School of Law and a member of the core faculty of the university's Women's and Gender Studies Program. He is the author of Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today and of Sexual Identity Law in Context: Cases and Materials. Klappentext This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination. Zusammenfassung Shannon Gilreath criticizes the gay movement itself! challenging the assimilation politics behind the movement's blithe acceptance of discrimination in the guise of free speech and pornography in the name of sexual liberation! as well as same-sex marriage and transsexuality as tools of straight hegemony. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The metaethics of gay liberation; Part I. Equality and Making Meaning: 2. Law/morality: thoughts on morality, equality, and caste; 3. Law/power: the appropriation of gay identity in Lawrence v. Texas - and the substantive alternative; Part II. Equality, Sexuality, and Expression: 4. Speech/hate propaganda: a comment on Harper v. Poway Unified School District; 5. Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a straight supremacist system; Part III. Millennial Equality: A Primer on Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century: 6. Gay/straight: the binary ontology of the gay marriage debate; 7. Knowledge/power: reversing the heteroarchal reversals of religion, marriage, and caste; 8. Trans/sex: transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis; 9. Epilogue: flaming, but not burning.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon Gilreath
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521181044
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18104-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Civics and citizenship, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics