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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade, María Enguix Tercero, Raquel Lucas Platero Mendéz is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Wait-what's wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations-agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state and its legal, policing, and social services apparatus-even its policies and documents of belonging and non-belonging-are neutral and benevolent. While we all have to comply with the gender binaries set forth by regulatory bodies of law and administration, many trans people, especially the most marginalized, are even more at risk for poverty, violence, and premature death by virtue of those same neutral" legal structures. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law raises revelatory critiques of the current strategies pivoting solely on a legal rights framework," but also points to examples of an organized grassroots trans movement that is demanding the most essential of legal reforms in addition to making more comprehensive interventions into dangerous systems of repress

Author

Dean Spade, María Enguix Tercero, Raquel Lucas Platero Mendéz

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822359890

Subjects

Law, Social Science

Rating

4.39 / 5 (548 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13