Gender Recognition and the Law

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

Autorentext

Flora Renz is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School, UK.

Inhalt

1. Proving Commitment: GRC Applications and the Performance of Normative Gender Identities 2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 Between Governance and Agency 3. Being Well Prepared or Being Put on a Register: Diverse Engagements with the Gender Recognition Act 4. From Heroism to Empathy: Emotional Engagements with Gender Regulation 5. Questioning the Legitimacy of Legal Gender Regulation