SOC446H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Control, Transvestism, Transsexual
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Pragmatic resistance, law, and social movements in authoritarian states. Lynette chau: collective mobilization in societies where civil-political rights are less available and lack cultural resonance compared to western liberal democracies. Law and society scholarship has focused on the role of rights in relation to social movements but lack systematic exploration of relationship between law and social movements outside western. Law = source of oppression: legal restrictions prohibit certain types of sexual conduct discipline, oppression through discipline and channeling less detectable and accepted as norm. The waxing and waning of these movements correspond with the liberalization or the tightening of regimes or repressive conditions: 2. The emergence of or increase in gay organizing, however, does not simply occur when socio-political conditions shift favorably depends on actors response: 3. April 1 2020: driving force in this movement is the repressive state, engaging transnational movements, and deploying international human rights discourse can attract accusations of abandoning one"s indigenous culture, and proselytizing.
