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Normal life : administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law

Dean Spade (Author)
"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."--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2015
Revised and expanded edition View all formats and editions
Duke University Press, Durham [North Carolina], 2015
Condición jurídica
xvi, 217 pages ; 24 cm
9780822359890, 9780822360407, 0822359898, 0822360403
903675198
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"
Afterword