Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law

by Isaac West

Book Overview

Transforming Citizenships engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law.

Drawing on an expansive archive,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479818925
• ISBN13: 9781479818921
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"