Transgender Rights by Currah, Paisley (editor) Juang, Richard M. (editor) Minter, Shannon Price (editor) - 2006

Usa: University of Minnesota Press. As New 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Fine 1stEd; not marked-in, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually under 12 hrs. ; 400 pages; Over the past 3 decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility & achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities, & more than 200 private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice & violence against transgender people remain all too common. With analysis from legal & policy experts, activists & advocates, Transgender Rights assesses the movement's achievements, challenges, & opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, & grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom & equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives & issues of transgender people, Transgender Rights will launch a new moment for human rights activism in America. Contributors: Kylar W. Broadus, Lincoln U of Missouri; Judith Butler, UC Berkeley; Mauro Cabral, Int’l Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Dallas Denny, International Foundation for Gender Education; Taylor Flynn, Northeastern U School of Law; Phyllis Randolph Frye; Julie A. Greenberg, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier U; Bennett H. Klein, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders; Jennifer L. Levi, Western New England College School of Law; Ruthann Robson, CUNY School of Law; Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson, Whitman College; Dean Spade, Silvia Rivera Law Project; Kendall Thomas, Columbia U; Paula Viturro, Buenos Aires U Law School; Willy Wilkinson, Transgender Law Center. Paisley Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, executive director of the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, & a founding board member of the Transgender Law & Policy Institute. Richard M. Juang is assistant professor of English at Susquehanna Univ & cochair of the National Center for Transgender Equality Advisory Board. Shannon Price Minter is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights & a founding board member of the Transgender Law & Policy Institute. \nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPaisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price \nMinter\n\nGender Pluralism Under the Transgender Umbrella\nPaisley Currah\n\nThe Ties that (Don't) Bind: Transgender Family Law and the Un-making of Families\nTaylor Flynn\n\nThe Roads Less Traveled: An Interdisciplinary and Cross Cultural Analysis of Binary Sex\nJulie A. Greenberg\n\nPursuing Protection For Transgender People Through Disability Laws\nJennifer Levi and Ben Klein\n\nThe Evolution of Employment Discrimination Protections for Transgender People\nKylar Broadus\n\nDeciding fate or protecting a `developing autonomy'? Intersex children and the Colombian Constitutional Court\nMorgan Holmes\n\nThe Rights of Intersexed Infants and Children: Decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court, Bogota, Colombia, 12th of May 1999 \n(SU-337/99) Translated by Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson\n\nDo Transsexuals Dream of Gay Rights? Getting Real About Transgender Inclusion in the Gay Rights Movement\nShannon Price Minter \n\nTransgender Communities of the United States in the Late Twentieth Century\nDallas Denny\n\nPublic Health Gains of the Transgender Community in San Francisco: Social and Policy Change Through Grassroots Organizing and Community-Based Research\nWilly Wilkinson\n\n"Compliance" is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in Hostile Economy \nDean Spade\n\nTransgendering the Politics of Recognition\nRichard M. Juang\n\nApril 2005, (Trans) Sexual Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina\nMauro Cabral and Paula Viturro\n\nUndiagnosing Gender\nJudith Butler\nReinscribing Normality? : The Law and Politics of Transgender Marriage\nRuthann Robson\nAfterword\nKendall Thomas \nAppendix: The International Bill of Gender Rights\nWith a preface by Phyllis Randolph Frye\nNotes on Contributors Index .