Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2015
240 pages
978-0-8223-7479-4 (ISBN)
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Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for the legal inclusion of trans populations, this revised and expanded edition of Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
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Dean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. For more writing by Dean Spade, see http://www.deanspade.net.
Content
Preface ix
Introduction: Rights, Movements, and Critical Trans Politics 1
1. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape 21
2. What's Wrong with Rights 38
3. Rethinking Transphobia and Power-Beyond a Rights Framework 50
4. Administering Gender 73
5. Law Reform and Movement Building 94
Conclusion: "This Is a Protest, Not a Parade" 117
Afterword 139
Acknowledgments 163
Notes 167
Index 207
Introduction: Rights, Movements, and Critical Trans Politics 1
1. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape 21
2. What's Wrong with Rights 38
3. Rethinking Transphobia and Power-Beyond a Rights Framework 50
4. Administering Gender 73
5. Law Reform and Movement Building 94
Conclusion: "This Is a Protest, Not a Parade" 117
Afterword 139
Acknowledgments 163
Notes 167
Index 207
