Organizing for Transgender Rights
Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement
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- Paperback
226 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2020
Summary
Illuminates transgender activists’ successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.
In recent years, gender-variant people-including those we now call transgender people-have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Department of Justice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781438473000 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1438473001 |
| Author: | Anthony J. Nownes |
| Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
| Imprint: | State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 226 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures |
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“The book traverses several fields, but it is primarily situated in and speaks to the political science literature on interest-group formation. It makes an important contribution by revisiting and revising pluralist and relative deprivation approaches to interest-group formation that have fallen out of favor in recent years.” — Stephen Valocchi, author of Social Movements and Activism in the USA
About The Author
Anthony J. Nownes
Anthony J. Nownes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Interest Groups in American Politics: Pressure and Power, Second Edition and Total Lobbying: What Lobbyists Want (and How They Try to Get It).
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