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Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives

Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives

Lyle, Timothy S.
Engel, Stephen M.

Hardcover

Series: Lgbtq Politics, Book 6

GLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1479852031
ISBN13: 9781479852031
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity

In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the equal dignity of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment.

With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity--and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms--became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential.

Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good. They expose the constraining work it accomplishes and the exclusionary ideas about respectability that it promotes. To restore a lost past and point to a more inclusive future, they assert the worthiness of queer lives beyond dignity's limits.

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