Sex Is As Sex Does Governing Transgender Identity

In this book, the author shows that the misclassification of transgender people, a phenomenon usually thought to be the result of transphobia, was in the past often deeply connected to systems that ensure the legal oppression of women. With the gradual disestablishment of gender from the state, barriers to sex reclassification began to crumble and contradictions in sex reclassification policies emerged-one state actor determining that sex classification is inalterably determined at birth, another demanding gender confirming surgery, a third requiring only an avowal of gender identity.

Info autore

Paisley Currah is Professor of Political Science and Women's & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. An award-winning author, he is the founding co-editor of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly and the co-editor of Transgender Rights and Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paisley Currah
• Editore: New York University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.09.2024
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780814717097
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1709-7
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Categorie: Gender Studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights; LAW / Gender & the Law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies