Shannon Gilreath

The End of Straight Supremacy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The metaethics of gay liberation; Part I. Equality and Making Meaning: 2. Law/morality: thoughts on morality, equality, and caste; 3. Law/power: the appropriation of gay identity in Lawrence v. Texas - and the substantive alternative; Part II. Equality, Sexuality, and Expression: 4. Speech/hate propaganda: a comment on Harper v. Poway Unified School District; 5. Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a straight supremacist system; Part III. Millennial Equality: A Primer on Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century: 6. Gay/straight: the binary ontology of the gay marriage debate; 7. Knowledge/power: reversing the heteroarchal reversals of religion, marriage, and caste; 8. Trans/sex: transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis; 9. Epilogue: flaming, but not burning.

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1. The metaethics of gay liberation; Part I. Equality and Making Meaning:
2. Law/morality: thoughts on morality, equality, and caste; 3. Law/power:
the appropriation of gay identity in Lawrence v. Texas - and the
substantive alternative; Part II. Equality, Sexuality, and Expression: 4.
Speech/hate propaganda: a comment on Harper v. Poway Unified School
District; 5. Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a
straight supremacist system; Part III. Millennial Equality: A Primer on Gay
Liberation in the Twenty-First Century: 6. Gay/straight: the binary
ontology of the gay marriage debate; 7. Knowledge/power: reversing the
heteroarchal reversals of religion, marriage, and caste; 8. Trans/sex:
transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis; 9. Epilogue:
flaming, but not burning.

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