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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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SUNY series in queer politics and cultures
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SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A brief history of transgender rights organizing in the United States -- The crucial role of grievances and interactions -- Interactions, learning, and connections -- Overcoming the collective action problem -- A return to context : population ecology, and political opportunity structure -- The role of collective identity. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's description |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transgender people -- United States.
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Transgender people. |
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United States. |
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Pressure groups -- United States.
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Pressure groups. |
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Human rights -- United States.
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Human rights. |
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Transseksuelen. |
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Pressiegroepen. |
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Verenigde Staten. |
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Transgender people. |
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Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Nownes, Anthony J. Organizing for transgender rights. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] 9781438473017 (DLC) 2018014129 (OCoLC)1039202840 |
| ISBN |
9781438473024 (electronic book) |
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1438473028 (electronic book) |
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9781438473017 |
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143847301X |
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