Polarising Sexualities and Genders

Kath Browne is a Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research has focused on social justice and inequalities, specifically around gender and sexualities. She has published Liveable Lives (Bloomsbury, 2023), Heteroactivism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and After Repeal (Bloomsbury, 2020).Emily Kazyak is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on laws related to sexuality and gender as well as on the family relationships of LGBTQ people.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1: Introduction - Kath Browne (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Emily Kazyak (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States)Chapter 2: Talking Past Each Other: Political Polarization and Transgender Athlete Bans - Elizabeth Rahilly (Georgia Southern University, United States) and Kimberly Martin (Georgia Southern University, United States)Chapter 3: Incommensurable Realities: LGBTQ Bodies and the Construction of Religion, Sexuality, and Discrimination in U.S. Federal Religious Exemption Litigation - Emily KazyakChapter 4: Claiming Space in the Margins: Community Organizations as Liminal Spaces for Black Transgender Women Navigating Political Polarization in the U.S. South - Kimya Loder (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)Chapter 5: We Are Just Like Everybody Else: Polarisation and Queer activism in Lithuania - Rasa Kamarauskaite (SSEES, UCL, UK)Chapter 6: Queer Legal Geographies of Polarisation in International LGBTQ Rights Law - Kay Lalor, (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chapter 7: Uneasy Alliances: Organizing Across Difference to Resist Anti-Trans Legislation - Erika Slaymaker Chapter 8: Identity Work in the Hubristic Present:How Generations as Groupism Create Polarization - S.L. Crawley (University of South Florida, United States) Chapter 9: ‘Gender Debate’ Discourse: Polarising, bigoted and validating - Elizabeth Peel (Loughborough University, UK)Chapter 10: Misinformation in the ‘Gender Wars’ in Britain: Affective Attachments in the Use and Misuse of Evidence - Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Chapter 11: Navigating the Tensions of Creativity and Division: Planning an Artist-led Workshop to Address Polarizations around Sexualities/Genders/Abortion - Carol Ballantine (University College Dublin, Ireland), Leah Hilliard (National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland), and Kath BrowneChapter 12: Crumbled Worlds or Imperfect Utopias: Discussing Our Polarised Sexual and Gendered Lives - Andrew McCartan (University College Dublin, Ireland), Jody Moore-Ponce (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland), Ann Burke (South East Technological University (SETU) in Ireland), Sarah Foudy, Eliza Thor ReferencesIndex

This wonderfully thoughtful and engaging book addresses the complexities of polarisation within contemporary gender and sexual politics. With contributions from leading scholars, it avoids easy conclusions, and sparkles. An important contribution to current debates.