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This chapter accounts for some of the political dynamics constituting the limits to public support for gay and lesbian anti-discrimination rights. Public ambivalence about these rights is revealed to “materialize” the legal subject at the same time that it constitutes the political body in ways that prevent the easy resolution of (sometimes imputed) rights demands. This materialization is explored within several tropes common to this public concern: the language of special rights, the suspicion of elites and the jurisprudence of wealth, and the rationality of the neoliberal marketplace.
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Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2005). Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights. In: Nielsen, L.B., Nelson, R.L. (eds) Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09467-0_11
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