Tensions in the Struggle for Sexual Minority Rights in Europe - Que(E)Rying Political Practices (Paperback)

Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe, newly available in paperback, 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. It illuminates how the paradigms of political discourse constitute, consolidate and contest the meaning and cultural significance of gender and sexuality on modern, democratic, capitalist European societies. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	2004
Authors:	Nico Beger
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6931-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-6931-9
Barcode:	9780719069314

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