Shannon Gilreath

Broschiertes Buch

The End of Straight Supremacy

Beschreibung

Rooted in the politics and theories of early gay liberation and radical feminism, Shannon Gilreath's The End of Straight Supremacy presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination. Beginning with a critique of formal equality law, centering on the 'like-straight' demands of liberal equality theory as highlighted in Lawrence v. Texas, Gilreath moves to criticize the gay movement itself, challenging the assimilation politics behind the movement's blithe acceptance of discrimination in the guise of free speech and pornography in the name of sexual liberation, as well as same-sex marriage and transsexuality as tools of straight hegemony. Ultimately, Gilreath rejects both the liberal demand for gay erasure in exchange for meager legal progress and the gay establishment agenda. In The End of Straight Supremacy, Gilreath calls gays and their allies to the difficult task of rethinking what liberation and equality really mean. Shannon Gilreath criticizes the gay movement itself, challenging the assimilation politics behind the movement's blithe acceptance of discrimination in the guise of free speech and pornography in the name of sexual liberation, as well as same-sex marriage and transsexuality as tools of straight hegemony.

Autor

Shannon Gilreath is Professor for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law at the Wake Forest University School of Law and a member of the core faculty of the university's Women's and Gender Studies Program. He is the author of Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today and of Sexual Identity Law in Context: Cases and Materials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780521181044
• ISBN-10: 0521181046
• Artikelnr.: 33769376

Rezensionen

"A valiant and well-reasoned argument for gays and lesbians to reject outmoded templates, such as the traditional, patriarchal marriage or free-speech law that empowers bigots while doing little for reformers and radicals."

- Richard Delgado
University Professor of Law, Seattle University, author of Words that Wound