ISBN:
9781438473024
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Series Statement:
SUNY series in queer politics and cultures
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.76/80973
Keywords:
Transgender people-United States
;
Pressure groups-United States
;
Human rights-United States
;
Human rights-United States
;
Pressure groups-United States
;
Transgender people-United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Organizing for Transgender Rights in the United States -- The Rise of Transgender Rights Advocacy -- Overview of Major Findings -- A Few Words about the Data and My Approach -- How Transgender Rights Interest Groups Mobilized -- Definitions and Terms -- Transgender -- Transgender Rights Interest Group -- Transgender Rights Social Movement -- Interest-Group Formation -- Outline of the Book -- 2 A Brief History of Transgender Rights Organizing in the United States -- The Early Days of Transgender Organizing -- The Stirrings of a Movement -- Stonewall -- Organizing Immediately after Stonewall: Real but Limited -- The Rift -- The Stonewall Legacy: A Dream Deferred -- The 1970s and 1980s: "The Contemporary Nadir" -- The 1990s: Transgender Organizing Comes of Age -- The Early and Mid-1990s -- The Late 1990s and early 2000s -- 2000 and Beyond -- Nationally Active Transgender Interest Groups Today -- State and Local Transgender Rights Advocacy Today -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3 The Crucial Role of Grievances and Interactions -- Pluralism: Threats, Grievances, Disturbances, and Group Formation -- Reasons and Motives: Pluralism and Grievances and Connections -- There Are Always Grievances and Threats -- The Role of Disturbances -- Pluralism and Threats: The Role of Interaction -- When Grievances and Threats Meet Interaction -- Other Organizations -- Conferences -- The Internet -- Conclusion: Do Threats, Disturbances, and Grievances Matter? -- 4 Interactions, Learning, and Connections -- Theory: Interactions, Cross-Movement Effects, and Spillover Effects -- What Interactions Do -- Interactions Raise Awareness -- Interactions within Existing Lgb and Lgbt Groups -- Interactions in other Transgender Groups -- Interactions in Women's Rights and Feminist Groups.
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