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Suspect Subjects: Queer Legal Futures in the US after Bostock
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Abstract Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptio... view more
Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about 'the Queer' in US law and culture by conducting interdisciplinary wide readings of legal texts. She makes a strong case for utilizing suspect classification to secure queer rights and offers the first distinctively cultural studies perspective on equal protection and sexual orientation by using a queer hermeneutics of law.... view less
Keywords
United States of America; law; gender; cultural studies; queer studies
Classification
Law
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
America; American Studies; American literature in English; Culture and institutions; Equal Protection; Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; LGBTQ; LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies; Literary studies: general; Queer Legal Theory; Queer Rights; Queer Theory; Social sciences
Document language
English
Publication Year
2025
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
298 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 42
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472729
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-7272-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed