Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives: 6 (LGBTQ Politics) - Tapa blanda

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Engel, Stephen M.; Lyle, Timothy S.

 
9781479899869: Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives: 6 (LGBTQ Politics)
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ISBN 10: 1479899860 ISBN 13: 9781479899869
Editorial: NYU Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity

In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the "equal dignity" of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment.

With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity-and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms-became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential.

Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good. They expose the constraining work it accomplishes and the exclusionary ideas about respectability that it promotes. To restore a lost past and point to a more inclusive future, they assert the worthiness of queer lives beyond dignity's limits.

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Stephen M. Engel is Professor of Politics at Bates College and an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation. He is the author of Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives, American Politicians Confront the Courts: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power, and The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement.

Timothy S. Lyle is an Assistant Professor of English at Iona College. Researching at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability, their latest published work appears in African American Review, MELUS, Callaloo, College Language Association Journal, and Journal of West Indian Literature.

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NYU Press
Año de publicación
2021
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ISBN 10 
1479899860
ISBN 13 
9781479899869
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Número de páginas
418
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