Rethinking Sexual Citizenship(English, Hardcover, Josephson Jyl J.)

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Rethinking Sexual Citizenship(English, Hardcover, Josephson Jyl J.) is written by Josephson Jyl J. and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438460473 (ISBN 10) and 9781438460475 (ISBN 13).

Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life. Public policy often assumes there is one correct way to be a family. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship argues that policies that enforce this idea hurt all of us and harm our democracy. Jyl J. Josephson uses the concept of "sexual citizenship" (a criticism of the assumption that all families have a heterosexual at their center) to show how government policies are made to punish or reward particular groups of people. This analysis applies sexual citizenship not only to policies that impact LGBTQ families, but also to other groups, including young people affected by abstinence-only public policies and single-parent families affected by welfare policy. The book also addresses the idea that the "normal" family in the United States is white. It concludes with a discussion of how scholars and activists can help create a more inclusive democracy by challenging this narrow view of public life.