Citizenship, gender and sexuality

Monro, Surya; Richardson, Diane

doi:10.4337/9781781954706.00011

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“…They also refer to approaches such as 'feminist citizenship', 'reproductive citizenship', 'intimate citizenship', 'biocitizenship', 'consumer citizenship', 'legal citizenship', and 'national and trans-national citizenship'. 35 While human rights discourses and legal approaches are central in the three reviewed knowledge fields, the citizenship concept seems to be less used in intersex activism and human rights discourses. I only found a mention of 'citizenship rights' in some of the reviewed activist declarations, and no mention of the citizenship concept in the reviewed human rights documents apart from a use of the term "citizenship card" related to the administrative procedure of modifying sex markers (UN 2023, p. 19).…”

Section: Citizenship Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies

Suess-Schwend

2024

Social Sciences

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Over the last decades, intersex studies has achieved increasing development as a field of critical knowledge, in tight collaboration with discourses developed by intersex activism and human rights bodies. This paper proposes a self-reflexive review of epistemological perspectives in intersex studies within broader discursive fields, through a thematic analysis and comparative framing analysis. This analysis is based on a narrative literature review of academic contributions, activist declarations, and documents issued by human rights bodies conducted over the last decade as a work-in-progress project. Furthermore, it includes results of a scoping review of recent knowledge production in intersex studies carried out in Scopus within the subject area ‘social sciences’. This paper focuses on the analysis of the following epistemological perspectives: human rights frameworks, legal perspectives and citizenship theories, reflections on biopolitics, medicalization and iatrogenesis, sociology of diagnosis framework, depathologization perspective, respectful health care models, and reflections on epistemological, methodological, and ethical aspects. The literature review raises questions about the existence of specific intersex epistemologies in intersex studies, their interrelation with discourses contributed by intersex activism and human rights bodies, and the opportunities for a contribution of theory making in intersex studies to the human rights protection of intersex people.

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Section: Citizenship Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies

Suess-Schwend

2024

Social Sciences

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“…LGBTþ movements have revealed the hegemonic (Monro and Richardson, 2014) and/or compulsory (Rich, 1980) heterosexuality underlying citizenship, demonstrating how citizens are "normatively constructed as (hetero)sexual subjects" (Richardson, 2005, p. 65) and, therefore, how heteronormativity serves as a line of inclusion/exclusion in western national communities, along with racialization and class (Brandzel, 2005).…”

Section: The Struggle For Citizenship Rights and The Claim For Recogn...mentioning

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“…LGBTþ claims for citizenship rights have developed over the past four decades, oscillating between liberationist (through a radical critique of the dominant heterosexual structure) and inclusionist thrusts (claims to recognize the same rights as heterosexual people in the frame of a human rights discourse, without questioning their heteronormative matrix) (Monro and Richardson, 2014;Prearo, 2015;Belle `et al, 2018). It is within the frame of the latter that the concept of sexual citizenship has developed, understood as the set of sexual rights claims inherent in the state's recognition of freedom of expression, bodily autonomy and social inclusion, affective and sexual relationships and freedom from violence (Monro and Richardson, 2014;Richardson, 2017). We can therefore argue that the claim for (sexual) citizenship by LGBTþ movements is a form of collective "coming out" through the uncovering and denunciation of the structural violence by the subjects hitherto rendered victim and invisible by it.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unpacking LGBT+ hate crimes discourse in Italy: between symbolic recognition and claims for sexual citizenship

Peroni,

Demurtas

2024

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a critical account of the hate crime (HC) paradigm by exploring its historical legal definition and the limitations in addressing the multiple and structural discriminations faced by minority groups. Specifically, the article focuses on the case of Italy, where in recent years a fierce debate over a proposed law on HC against LGBT+ and disabled people ended in its rejection due to neoconservative and Catholic opposition. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on critical socio-criminological literature on HC, the paper analyses the Italian debates and socio-legal context over the past two decades regarding discrimination against LGBT+ groups and its (lack of) criminalization. It also provides a secondary analysis of recent data on violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people, collected by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). Findings The analysis of the debate and the data collected shows that the criminal definition of HC is insufficient to capture the wider range of social and cultural violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. Indeed, data analysis shows the effect of the low level of recognition of rights on the propensity of people to denounce and of social practitioners to recognize, discrimination and violence against LGBT+ people. It is therefore argued that the discussion on HC should move beyond the criminalization of individual violence to be entrenched in a broader reflection over the lack of recognition of sexual citizenship rights which perpetuates the vulnerability of LGBT+ people. Originality/value This paper contributes to the international socio-criminological debate on HC. It argues for a comprehensive framework that recognizes the structural nature of discrimination and violence against vulnerable groups by framing discrimination and violence against LGBT+ people as a citizenship right rather than a criminal justice issue.

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“…The binary gender model, or cisgender model, is implicit in most feminist discussions of citizenship; Sanger observes ‘gender is still understood, both theoretically and culturally, as adhering to the dualism of male/female’ (Sanger, 2008: 41). Monro (2005) and Monro and Richardson (2014), as well as Van der Ros (2013b), critique the gender-binaried nature of feminist approaches to citizenship, arguing for the acknowledgement of gender diversity in terms of citizenship claims, rights and obligations.…”

Section: Transgender Citizenship: Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans* and gender variant citizenship and the state in Norway

Monro

Ros²

2017

Critical Social Policy

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The last decade has seen the expansion of trans* identities that are gender queer, non-binary, androgynous, or multiply-sexed and gendered in Western Europe. These developments mark a shift from a uniformly gender-binaried system to one that encompasses some degree of gender pluralism, as reflected to an extent in policy changes in some European countries. However, gender binarism is still prevalent. This article uses the case of Norway to demonstrate a contrast between the citizenship statuses afforded to transsexual men and women, and the lack of citizenship rights that people with non-binary identities, and other gender-variant people who are not diagnosed as transsexual, face. The article addresses the historical role of the Norwegian state in perpetuating gender binaries, in key areas such as identity recognition. It then explores the ways in which Norwegian social policy is changing towards more trans-sensitive positions.

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Citizenship, gender and sexuality

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies

Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies

Unpacking LGBT+ hate crimes discourse in Italy: between symbolic recognition and claims for sexual citizenship

Trans* and gender variant citizenship and the state in Norway

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