ISBN:
9089649603
,
9789089649607
Language:
English
Pages:
198 pages
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Protest and social movements 18
Series Statement:
Protest and social movements
Uniform Title:
La militance LGBT aux États-Unis: sexualité et subjectivité
DDC:
305.90664
Keywords:
Homosexuality Political aspects
;
Sexual minorities Government policy
;
Sexual minorities Civil rights
;
USA
;
LGBT
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe and North America are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. This book focuses on the transformations of the United States' LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have not led to an increase in militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors' mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Translated from the French
