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Record Nr.

UNISA996659460503316

Autore

Borchert Laura

Titolo

Suspect Subjects : Queer Legal Futures in the US after Bostock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9783839472729

3839472725

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

American Culture Studies ; ; 42

Altri autori (Persone)

RöckenhausKordula

Disciplina

342.730866

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies

LGBTQ+ civil rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I. A Few Notes on Concepts -- II. Narrativized, Constituted, Imagined -- III. Neither Force nor Will? -- IV. Judging More Queerly -- V. Approaches Towards a Queer Legal Future -- VI. Conclusion -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about ›the Queer‹ in US law and culture by conducting interdisciplinary wide readings of legal texts. She makes a strong case for utilizing suspect classification to secure queer rights and offers the first distinctively cultural studies perspective on equal protection and sexual orientation by using a queer hermeneutics of law.