Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement - Brossura

Libro 12 di 19: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Nownes, Anthony J.

 
9781438473000: Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement
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ISBN 10: 1438473001 ISBN 13: 9781438473000
Casa editrice: State University of New York Press, 2020

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In recent years, gender-variant people—including those we now call transgender people—have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Department of Justice announced that discrimination on the basis of gender identity constituted sex discrimination, and the Department of Health and Human Services decided that it would no longer stop Medicare from covering gender reassignment surgery. What accounts for these and other victories?

Anthony J. Nownes argues that a large part of the answer lies in the rise of transgender rights interest groups in the United States. Drawing on firsthand accounts from the founders and leaders of these groups, Organizing for Transgender Rights not only addresses how these groups mobilized and survived but also illuminates a path to further social change. Nownes shows how oppressed and marginalized people can overcome the barriers to collective action and form viable organizations to represent their interests even when their government continues to be hostile and does not.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Anthony J. Nownes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Interest Groups in American Politics: Pressure and Power, Second Edition and Total Lobbying: What Lobbyists Want (and How They Try to Get It).

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Editore
State University of New York Press
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1438473001
ISBN 13 
9781438473000
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
226
Contatto del produttore
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9781438473017: Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement

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ISBN 10:  143847301X ISBN 13:  9781438473017
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2019
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