Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe : que(e)rying political practices

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Beger, Nicole J

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"Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe is the first queer and poststructuralist reading of political rights concepts in the specific European transnational context. In the l...

"Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe is the first queer and poststructuralist reading of political rights concepts in the specific European transnational context. In the last thirty years Europe has seen the rise of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movements fighting nationally and transnationally for participation rights in society. In addition academic theorists have increasingly paid attention to the epistemological and ontological roles gender and sexuality play in modern politics. However, in the political process of arguing for rights the centrality of those roles is mostly hidden from view in official institutional and movement discourses." "This book investigates the conceptual themes of lesbian, gay, and transgender rights and lobby politics in Europe and their open and hidden relations to binary and hierarchical orders of dominance. It contributes to an understanding of the conditions upon which politics of inclusion, participation, social justice, and equality rest and why struggles for sexual minority rights have been so difficult and slow. Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe illuminates how the paradigms of political discourses constitute, consolidate, and contest the meaning and cultural significance of gender and sexuality in modern, democratic, capitalist European societies." "The book is important for academics and students with an interest in gender and sexuality in the field of Law, Cultural Theory, Philosophy, and Political Science and for political activists with an interest in queer theory."--BOOK JACKET.

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