After Equality

LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa

Julie Moreau (University of Toronto)

$173.95

Hardback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

Cambridge University Press
03 July 2025

Gender studies, gender groups; Gay & Lesbian studies; Comparative politics

Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics

After Equality tackles one of the biggest challenges facing LGBT activists in many parts of the world: how to move beyond inclusive legislation to ensure LGBT people can exercise their newly acquired rights. Drawing from in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation with two lesbian organizations in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Cape Town, South Africa, Julie Moreau explores the ways that organizations use identity to make rights useful. Engaging interdisciplinary scholarship and intersectional theory, Moreau develops a novel approach to identity strategizing that explains how activists engage multiple identities to challenge the relationships between identity categories and address the ways interlocking systems of power affect their constituents. By analyzing sexual identity as always constructed through race, class and gender, the book transforms how scholars understand the role of identity in the strategic repertoires of social movement organizations and illuminates dimensions of identity politics that surface in the aftermath of legal inclusion.

By: Julie Moreau (University of Toronto)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009593007
ISBN 10: 1009593005
Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Julie Moreau is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She specializes in LGBTQ politics, social movements, and citizenship.

Reviews for After Equality: LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa

'In After Equality, Julie Moreau unpacks one of the most pressing challenges for LGBTQ movements: ensuring that legal victories translate into lived equality. Focusing on the experiences of activists in Argentina and South Africa, Moreau's comparative ethnography reveals how social movements navigate the limitations of formal inclusion by deploying intersectional strategies that address the intertwined effects of sexuality, race, and class. This book is a powerful contribution to understanding the evolving dynamics of LGBTQ rights in the global South. Moreover, it offers political science's limited focus on LGBTQ movements a fresh and essential perspective, by centering those led by women.' Phillip Ayoub, University College London