{"product_id":"beyond-recognition-9780817362393","title":"Beyond Recognition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and original analysis of how the complexity of legal struggles over transgender rights is shaped not only by politics but by a deeper cultural anxiety about the meaning of sex itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Recognition: Transgender Antidiscrimination Law, Rhetoric, and Ethical Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely analysis that challenges the idea of transgender antidiscrimination law as a simple matter of inclusion or exclusion. Far from treating the law as a straightforward recognition project, Laura Jane Collins employs a rhetorically responsive approach that reveals how legal systems both reflect and shape our deepest uncertainties about sex, identity, and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of Title VII case law, state-level legislation such as California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, and legislative debates surrounding bathroom access and trans rights, Collins exposes the deep-seated anxieties driving contemporary legal debates. While courts, policymakers, and advocates struggle to construct legal protections, the very act of defining sex within the law exposes law's limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than condemning the law's failures or romanticizing its liberatory potential, Collins calls for a more self-reflective, ethically engaged response. She argues that our demand for legal clarity often conceals a broader discomfort with ambiguity—and that the law's so-called shortcomings may in fact reflect our own refusal to confront the complexity of sex as a category and system of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vital contribution to scholarship in law and rhetoric, gender studies, and critical legal theory, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e invites a deeper reckoning with both legal frameworks and personal responsibility. It offers a compelling perspective on the evolving landscape of transgender rights and the cultural anxieties that continue to shape it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Jane Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56489624731990,"sku":"9780817362393","price":39.73,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780817362393.jpg?v=1793913357","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.fi\/products\/beyond-recognition-9780817362393","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}