NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

The remarkable rise of transgender rights / Jami K. Taylor, Daniel C. Lewis, and Donald P. Haider-Markel.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018Description: viii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780472074013
  • 0472074016
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ77.9 .T39 2018
Contents:
Transgender identity and LGBT rights -- Rise of the transgender rights movement and LGBT rights -- Public attitudes on transgender rights -- Public opinion about transgender rights -- Public opinion about transgender people and policies / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The factors underlying public opinion about transgender rights / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The political opportunity structure and transgender rights -- Transgender rights and legislative bodies -- Transgender and the judiciary / with Joan Pierceson -- Executive branch treatments of transgender rights / with Mitchell Sellers -- Direct democracy and transgender rights -- Transgender policy -- Identity documentation and the regulation of gender -- Discrimination and civil rights -- Health care policy / with Ryan Combs -- Education policy -- Criminal justice and trans identities.
Summary: While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct. Ov er the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucracies at all levels. It has achieved these victories despite the relatively small number of trans people and despite the widespread discrimination, poverty and violence experienced by many in the transgender community. This is a remarkable achievement in a political system where public policy often favors those with important resources that the transgender community lacks: access, money, and voters. The Remarkable rise of transgender rights explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ77.9 .T39 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001486363

Transgender identity and LGBT rights -- Rise of the transgender rights movement and LGBT rights -- Public attitudes on transgender rights -- Public opinion about transgender rights -- Public opinion about transgender people and policies / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The factors underlying public opinion about transgender rights / with Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock -- The political opportunity structure and transgender rights -- Transgender rights and legislative bodies -- Transgender and the judiciary / with Joan Pierceson -- Executive branch treatments of transgender rights / with Mitchell Sellers -- Direct democracy and transgender rights -- Transgender policy -- Identity documentation and the regulation of gender -- Discrimination and civil rights -- Health care policy / with Ryan Combs -- Education policy -- Criminal justice and trans identities.

While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct. Ov er the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucracies at all levels. It has achieved these victories despite the relatively small number of trans people and despite the widespread discrimination, poverty and violence experienced by many in the transgender community. This is a remarkable achievement in a political system where public policy often favors those with important resources that the transgender community lacks: access, money, and voters. The Remarkable rise of transgender rights explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha