Transforming Citizenships by Isaac West PAPERBACK 9781479818921

Transforming Citizenships\nby Isaac West\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Isaac West\nTitle: Transforming Citizenships\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies, gender groups\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479818921\nISBN-10: 1479818925\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nTransforming Citizenships engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law.\nDrawing on an expansive archive, from the correspondence of a transwoman arr.