The end of straight supremacy
Subtitle: realizing gay liberation
By: Shannon Gilreath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781107004597; 9780521181044
Subjects: Social conditions; Gay rights; Gays; Gay liberation movement; LAW / General; History
Description: "This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination and calls for the difficult task of rethinking what liberation and equality really mean"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The metaethics of gay liberation; Part I. Equality and Making Meaning: 2. Law/morality: thoughts on morality, equality, and caste; 3. Law/power: the appropriation of gay identity in Lawrence v. Texas - and the substantive alternative; Part II. Equality, Sexuality, and Expression; 4. Speech/hate propaganda: a comment on Harper v. Poway Unified School District; 5. Pornography/death: the problem of gay pornography in a straight supremacist system; Part III. Millennial Equality: A Primer on Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century: 6. Gay/straight: the binary ontology of the gay marriage debate; 7. Knowledge/power: reversing the heteroarchal reversals of religion, marriage, and caste; 8. Trans/sex: transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis; 9. Epilogue: flaming, but not burning.