Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship
Towards a Politics of Difference
Authors: Hines, S.
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- About this book
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This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political, theoretical and policy shifts concerning gender and sexual diversity, and addresses current debates about equality and diversity, citizenship and recognition across a range of disciplines.
- About the authors
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Sally Hines is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, at the University of Leeds, UK. Her recent publications include TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care, Sexualities: Reflections and Futures (co-edited with Yvette Taylor) and Theorising Intersectionality and Sexuality (co-edited with Yvette Taylor and Mark Casey).
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'A wonderful, scholarly elaboration of a politics of difference, carefully argued and grounded in the claims and experiences of transgender people.' - Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK
'In a nuanced and vivid account of trans people's engagements with gender recognition law, Hines offers important new reflections on the politics of recognition and difference.' - Davina Cooper, Professor of Law & Political Theory, University of Kent, UK
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Theorising Recognition
Pages 7-26
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Moving for Recognition
Pages 27-42
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Recognition, Misrecognition and Human Rights
Pages 43-54
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Claiming and Contesting Recognition
Pages 55-68
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship
- Book Subtitle
- Towards a Politics of Difference
- Authors
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- S. Hines
- Series Title
- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-31887-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137318879
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-27189-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32287-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 150
- Topics
