Transforming citizenships : transgender articulations of the law / Isaac West.

"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 subjectiviti...

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Main Author: West, Isaac (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:Sexual cultures.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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