{"product_id":"organizing-for-transgender-rights-collective-action-group-development-and-the-rise-of-a-new-social-movement-paperback","title":"Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony J. Nownes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlluminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, gender-variant people-including those we now call transgender people-have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term \"gender identity disorder\" with \"gender dysphoria\" in the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/i\u003e, the Department of Justice announced that discrimination on the basis of gender identity constituted sex discrimination, and the Department of Health and Human Services decided that it would no longer stop Medicare from covering gender reassignment surgery. What accounts for these and other victories? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony J. Nownes argues that a large part of the answer lies in the rise of transgender rights interest groups in the United States. Drawing on firsthand accounts from the founders and leaders of these groups, \u003ci\u003eOrganizing for Transgender Rights\u003c\/i\u003e not only addresses how these groups mobilized and survived but also illuminates a path to further social change. Nownes shows how oppressed and marginalized people can overcome the barriers to collective action and form viable organizations to represent their interests even when their government continues to be hostile and does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony J. Nownes \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eInterest Groups in American Politics: Pressure and Power, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTotal Lobbying: What Lobbyists Want (and How They Try to Get It)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50369226834157,"sku":"9781438473000","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/e-ElX1dcQs9781438473000.webp?v=1785426488","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/organizing-for-transgender-rights-collective-action-group-development-and-the-rise-of-a-new-social-movement-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}