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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law Paperback / softback - 2015

by Dean Spade

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Paperback / softback. New. Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for the legal inclusion of trans populations, this revised and expanded edition of Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
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  • Title Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
  • Author Dean Spade
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2015-08-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822360407
  • ISBN 9780822360407 / 0822360403
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Transgender people - Legal status, laws, etc
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015016311
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

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Revised and Expanded Edition

Wait--what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective?

In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.

In the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.

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  • Library Journal, 06/01/2016, Page 54

About the author

Dean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. For more writing by Dean Spade, see http: //www.deanspade.net.