Dean Spade
Normal Life
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822360407
- author:
- Dean Spade
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 264
- Dimensions:
- 1.3 x 15.2 x 22.2 cm
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Gender Studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade presents a critical examination of the legal equality framework for social change. This revised edition explores transformative grassroots trans activism that challenges traditional civil rights reforms. Spade critiques the assumption that gaining legal recognition will address the root causes of harm and violence faced by trans populations. Instead, he highlights recent efforts to "pinkwash" state violence through trans inclusion reforms in the US military and prison systems. The book argues for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
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