Beyond Recognition
Transgender Antidiscrimination Law, Rhetoric, and Ethical Responsibility
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8173-6239-3 (ISBN)
Description
Challenges the notion that transgender antidiscrimination law is a simple question of inclusion versus exclusion. The author uses the tools of rhetorical analysis to understand what the law is called to do, what it actually does, and what its limitations are. In doing so, this work demonstrates how law is relied upon to offer definitive sex categorizations that can be elusive in real life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-6239-3 (9780817362393)
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Laura Jane Collins is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Collins's work has appeared in Law, Culture, and the Humanities and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Responding to Law Rhetorically
Chapter 2. Sex Anxiety and Stasis in Title VII Sex Discrimination
Chapter 3. Leaning on the Topos of Authentic Identity in California’s FEHA
Chapter 4. Trapped in the Topology of Transgender Bathroom Politics
Chapter 5. Reckoning with Law’s Problems as Our Own
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index