Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

Rethinking Sexual Citizenship
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781438460475
ISBN-13 : 1438460473
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Sexual Citizenship by : Jyl J. Josephson

Download or read book Rethinking Sexual Citizenship written by Jyl J. Josephson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life. Public policy often assumes there is one correct way to be a family. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship argues that policies that enforce this idea hurt all of us and harm our democracy. Jyl J. Josephson uses the concept of “sexual citizenship” (a criticism of the assumption that all families have a heterosexual at their center) to show how government policies are made to punish or reward particular groups of people. This analysis applies sexual citizenship not only to policies that impact LGBTQ families, but also to other groups, including young people affected by abstinence-only public policies and single-parent families affected by welfare policy. The book also addresses the idea that the “normal” family in the United States is white. It concludes with a discussion of how scholars and activists can help create a more inclusive democracy by challenging this narrow view of public life.


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