Respect and equality : transsexual and transgender rights / Stephen Whittle.

By:

Whittle, Stephen, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Portland, OR : Cavendish Pub., 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781135337070
1135337071
1843144867
9781843144861
9781135337025
1135337020
9781135337063
1135337063
9781138150409
1138150401
9781283584982
1283584980
1282376152
9781282376151
9786612376153
6612376155
9786613897435
6613897434

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Respect and equality.DDC classification:

346.4101//3 22

LOC classification:

KD7975 .W48 2002eb

Other classification:

86.60

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Contents:

1. Disembodies law: trans people's legal (outer)space -- 2. Legal madness: transsexualism -- 3. Transsexual denial: socially constructing the legal body -- 4. Still gender fucking or still fucking gender? -- 5. The trans-cyberian mail way -- 6. Institutionalised employment discrimination and transsexual people -- 7. Sex and marriage: go together like a ...? -- 8. Gemeinschaftsfremden -- or how to be shafted by your friends: sterilisation requirements and legal status recognitition for the transsexual -- 9. Seeking a gendered adolescence: liability and ethics surrounding adolescents with gender dysphoria -- 10. European transgender rights: new identity politics for a new age -- 11. The praxis and politics of polcing: problems facing trans people -- 12. Prison provision for trans people -- 13. 'Gedner identity': proposed additional protocol broadening Article 14 of the European Convention; the need for express inclusion -- 14. Surgical requirements for legal recognition: why a vaginectomy should not be demanded of a transsexual man -- 15. Transsexual people in the military -- 16. A temporary asylum appeal for a transsexual prisoner.

Summary: The author argues that current law does not adequately provide for transgender people and calls for respect and equality before the law. Theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, and a range of primary and secondary research materials are combined to provide an insightful analysis.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.

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The author argues that current law does not adequately provide for transgender people and calls for respect and equality before the law. Theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, and a range of primary and secondary research materials are combined to provide an insightful analysis.

English.

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