De-Moralizing Gay Rights Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US /

• Main Author: Ghosh, Cyril (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Public policy.; US Politics.; Public Policy.

This book critically interrogates three sets of distortions that emanate from the messianic core of 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be committed to an emancipatory politics....

Table of Contents:

• 1. De-Moralizing Gay Rights
• 2. Radical Theory Creep
• 3. Obergefell v. Hodges: Marriage Equality's Insistence on Family Values
• 4. Covering's Other Hidden Assault
• 5. Epilogue.