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03744aam a2200553 i 4500 001 95FF1270E65311EDAE6877204CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230429010055 008 210611t20222022nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021025476 020 $a 0814717098 020 $a 9780814717097 020 $a 0814717101 020 $a 9780814717103 035 $a (OCoLC)1256588005 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CDX $d YDX $d GZM $d OCL $d VP@ $d CLU $d JNA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HQ77.95.U6 $b C87 2022 082 00 $a 306.76/80973 $2 23 100 1 $a Currah, Paisley, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Sex is as sex does : $b governing transgender identity / $c Paisley Currah. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xvii, 231 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index. 505 0 $a "If Sex Is Not a Biologic Phenomenon" -- Sex and Popular Sovereignty -- Sex Classification as a Technology of Governance -- Till Birth Do Us Part : Marriage, ID Documents, and the Nation-State -- Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide. 520 $a "In this book, the author shows that the misclassification of transgender people, a phenomenon usually thought to be the result of transphobia, was in the past often deeply connected to systems that ensure the legal oppression of women. With the gradual disestablishment of gender from the state, barriers to sex reclassification began to crumble and contradictions in sex reclassification policies emerged-one state actor determining that sex classification is inalterably determined at birth, another demanding gender confirming surgery, a third requiring only an avowal of gender identity. While trans advocates attempt to rectify the injustice by talking about what sex and gender really are, the author demonstrates that policymakers have often been more concerned with what sex does for a particular state project. Sometimes it has been a tool for nation-building, as in marriage law; sometimes it has been a tool for affirming identity or tracking individuals, as in identity documents. Setting aside debates about "the correct" definitions of sex and gender, he examines how sex has been put to work as a mobile technology of governing. The book also illustrates how, in the current climate, sex reclassification has been weaponized by the right"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Transgender people $z United States. 650 0 $a Transgender people $x Identity. 650 0 $a Gender identity $z United States. 650 0 $a Gender nonconformity $z United States. 650 0 $a Transgender people $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z United States. 650 6 $a Transgenres $z Ãtats-Unis. 650 6 $a Transgenres $x Identité. 650 6 $a Identité sexuelle $z Ãtats-Unis. 650 6 $a Transgenrisme $z Ãtats-Unis. 650 7 $a Transgender people $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01767928 650 7 $a Gender identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939593 650 7 $a Gender nonconformity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01765240 650 7 $a Transgender people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01765239 650 7 $a Transgender people $x Identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766527 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Currah, Paisley, 1964- $t Sex is as sex does. $d New York : New York University Press, [2022] $z 9781479812028 $w (OCoLC)1302006508 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214015823.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021031838.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230429020757.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95FF1270E65311EDAE6877204CECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search