Polarising sexualities and genders: divisions, differences and LGBTQIA+ equalities

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Polarising sexualities and genders: divisions, differences and LGBTQIA+ equalities
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Publication Data:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Pages:
xii, 236 p
Contents:
List of illustrations — Acknowledgements — About the authors — Chapter 1. Introduction / Kath Browne and Emily Kazyak — Chapter 2. Talking past each other: political polarization and transgender athlete bans / Elizabeth Rahilly and Kimberly Martin — Chapter 3. Incommensurable realities: LGBTQ bodies and the construction of religion, sexuality and discrimination in US federal religious exemption litigation / Emily Kazyak — Chapter 4. Claiming space in the margins: community organizations as liminal spaces for black transgender women navigating political polarization in the US South / Kimya Loder — Chapter 5. We are just like everybody else: polarisation and queer activism in Lithuania / Rasa Kamarauskaitė — Chapter 6. Queer legal geographies of polarisation in international LGBTQ rights law / Kay Lalor — Chapter 7. Uneasy alliances: organizing across difference to resist anti-trans legislation / Erika Slaymaker —Chapter 8. Identity work in the hubristic present: how generations as groupism create polarization / S. L. Crawley — Chapter 9. ‘Gender debate’ discourse: polarising, bigoted and validating / Elizabeth Peel — Chapter 10. Misinformation in the ‘gender wars’ in Britain: affective attachments in the use and misuse of evidence / Sarah Lamble — Chapter 11. Navigating the tensions of creativity and division: lanning an artist-led workshop to address polarisations around sexualities / genders / abortion / Carol Ballantine, Leah Hilliard and Kath Browne — Chapter 12. Crumbled worlds or imperfect utopias: discussing our polarised sexual and gendered lives / Andrew McCartan, Jody Moore-Ponce, Ann Burke, Sarah Foudy and Eliza Thor — References — Index.
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Subkultūros / Subcultures; Diskriminacija. Konfliktai / Discrimination. Conflict; Žmogaus teisės / Human rights; Airija (Ireland); Kanada (Canada); Jungtinė Karalystė (Didžioji Britanija; Great Britain; United Kingdom, UK, GB); Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos (United States of America; JAV; USA); Lietuva (Lithuania).
Summary / Abstract:

ENAnti-gender and heteroactivist movements have become increasingly recognized as key political groups in the last decade, driving resistances that often respond to LGBTQI+ inclusion. How these divisions are felt and experienced is under-explored. Crossing a variety of geographical contexts, including the USA, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain, Polarising Sexualities and Genders brings together leading and emerging scholars in multiple disciplines to explore, theorise and hope for change in social, legal, and political sexual / gendered / LGBTQIA+ landscapes. Examples include polarisation in media coverage and legislative debates about gender and transgender rights in the US and UK, to the possibility of occupying a sexual borderlands, the changing language for LGBTQIA+ identities within the US, and the ways in which new discourses emerge to capture sexual lives. Through these case studies, the book explores how polarizing discourses and sociopolitical landscape shape the lived experiences, divisions, and marginalizations among LGBTQIA+ people in places including Lithuania and the southern United States.

DOI:
10.5040/9781350449893
ISBN:
9781350449862; 9781350449855; 9781350449893
Subject area:
Sociologija / Sociology
Parts:
P. 61-74. We are just like everybody else: polarisation and queer activism in Lithuania
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2026-08-23 22:10:47
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