Shannon Gilreath

The End of Straight Supremacy

Realizing Gay Liberation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781107004597
• ISBN-10: 1107004594
• Artikelnr.: 33874953

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