Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism

by Laurel Westbrook

Anti-violence movements rooted in identity politics have become so commonplace as to seem a natural way to reduce violence. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within transgender anti-violence activism. It illustrates how techniques designed to attract broad sympathy and outrage unintentionally obscure the causes, patterns, and lasting solutions to violence against trans people and run counter to the goal of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520316584
• ISBN13: 9780520316584
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"