1st Edition
Blackwashing Homophobia Violence and the Politics of Sexuality, Gender and Race
By Melanie Judge
Copyright 2018
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence... Read more
Introduction: (Un)settling Violence Chapter 1. "Double the Trouble": Gender and Sexuality (Un)corrected Chapter 2. The Violence of Racialisation, The Racialisation of Violence Chapter 3. View to a Kill: The Politics of Spectacle Chapter 4. Assimilation and Ascendance: Violent Differentiation in Post-Colonial Context Chapter 5. Law, Education and a Not-Only LGBT Revolution Conclusion: Trouble the Dreams of Political Possibility
Biography
Melanie Judge is a queer and feminist activist, and Adjunct Associate Professor, and research associate at the Centre for Law and Society, in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town.
