Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy

Spade, Dean

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Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy

Dean Spade

Seattle University School of Law

August 7, 2008

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, Paisley Currah, Richard Juang, Shannon Minter, eds., 2006

Abstract:
This article addresses the economic marginalization of transgender populations, describing factors leading to poverty and criminalization. It examines how trans people are excluded from social services and face violence in the institutions where poor people are concentrated. It takes up feminist analysis of welfare programs and broadens the inquiry to suggest that the sex-segregation of the welfare state institutions and the criminal punishment system should be a target of feminist analysis.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: welfare, prison, jail, homeless shelter, transgender, race, class, gender

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Date posted: August 7, 2008

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Spade, Dean, Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy (August 7, 2008). TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, Paisley Currah, Richard Juang, Shannon Minter, eds., 2006. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1209984

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