{"product_id":"beyond-recognition-transgender-antidiscrimination-law-rhetoric-and-ethical-responsibility-9780817362393","title":"Beyond Recognition: Transgender Antidiscrimination Law, Rhetoric, and Ethical Responsibility","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Jane Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Collins's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLaw, Culture, and the Humanities \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRhetoric \u0026amp; Public Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127697207570,"sku":"9780817362393","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4498be5-4544-4885-bec0-dfc3338983b5.jpg?v=1773743761","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-recognition-transgender-antidiscrimination-law-rhetoric-and-ethical-responsibility-9780817362393","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}