Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
Reihe: Social Justice
Troubling Transgender Peoples' Engagement with Legal Regulation
Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
Reihe: Social Justice
ISBN: 978-0-367-56641-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Gender Recognition Act (GRA) has often been described as a groundbreaking and progressive legal framework for allowing people to legally change their gender. This book seeks to challenge this representation by drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with trans people about the GRA. Theoretically this book uses the concepts of legal consciousness, agency and emotion to highlight the normative underpinnings of the GRA. Overall, the book contends, the GRA does not accurately reflect many trans people's own understanding of their gender identity or their sexuality. It is designed to create subjects that govern their behaviour and self-expression in a way that aligns with a purely binary model of sex/gender and sexuality. Although a deviation from these norms does not incur any direct punishment, it indirectly leads to a denial of rights and legal protections. By reviewing relevant legislation and case law, and through qualitative research, the book establishes how, instead of uncritically accepting or completely rejecting the GRA, trans people enact their singular identities by engaging strategically with law.
This book will be of interest across a range of disciplines, including socio-legal studies, family law, gender, sexuality and law as well as sociology courses on gender, identity and social policy.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Proving “Commitment”: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 – Between Governance and Agency 3. Being “Well Prepared” or “Being Put on a Register”: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation