Overview
Critically re-evaluates current discourse of LGBT+ rights advocacy in the US
Provides valuable insight to graduate students and academics in political science, gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology and critical legal studies (including critical race theory)
Offers a unique perspective on the Obergefell v. Hodges opinion
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About this book
This book critically interrogates three sets of distortions that emanate from the messianic core of 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be committed to an emancipatory politics. The second concerns a recent US Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), a judgment that established marriage equality across the 50 states. The third distortion occurs in Kenji Yoshino’s theorization of the concept of gay covering. Each distortion produces its own injunction to assimilate, sometimes into the dominant mainstream and, at other times, into the fold of what is axiomatically taken to be the category of the radical. Using a queer theoretic analysis, De-Moralizing Gay Rights argues for the dismantling of each of these three sets of assimilationist injunctions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cyril Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Government & Politics at Wagner College, USA and the author of The Politics of the American Dream: Democratic Inclusion in Contemporary American Political Culture (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: De-Moralizing Gay Rights
Book Subtitle: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US
Authors: Cyril Ghosh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78840-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78839-5Published: 05 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78840-1Published: 18 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 112
Topics: US Politics, Public Policy