Suspect Subjects

Laura Borchert

ISBN 10: 3837672727 / ISBN 13: 9783837672725

Published by Transcript Verlag Mär 2025, 2025

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Neuware -Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about ¿the Queer¿ in US law and culture and central constitutional-cultural imaginaries by conducting interdisciplinary wide readings of legal texts. She makes a strong case for utilizing suspect classification to secure queer rights and offers the first distinctively cultural studies perspective on equal protection and sexual orientation by using a queer hermeneutics of law. 298 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suspect Subjects
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Mär 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837672727
• ISBN 13: 9783837672725
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 144H x 23D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 144 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 494 grams

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Synopsis

Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about ›the Queer‹ in US law and culture by conducting interdisciplinary wide readings of legal texts. She makes a strong case for utilizing suspect classification to secure queer rights and offers the first distinctively cultural studies perspective on equal protection and sexual orientation by using a queer hermeneutics of law.

About the Author

Laura Borchert, born in 1989, is a research associate (postdoc) in the DFG-funded project »Human Rights Discourses in Migrant Societies« and works as a lecturer at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen's English Department. Borchert was a member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) in Gießen as well as the Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften (GGS). Her research is situated in queer studies, queer legal theory, law and X, and American cultural studies.