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Kath Browne is a Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research has focused on social justice and inequalities, specifically around gender and sexualities. She has published Liveable Lives (Bloomsbury, 2023), Heteroactivism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and After Repeal (Bloomsbury, 2020). Emily Kazyak is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on laws related to sexuality and gender as well as on the family relationships of LGBTQ people.
This wonderfully thoughtful and engaging book addresses the complexities of polarisation within contemporary gender and sexual politics. With contributions from leading scholars, it avoids easy conclusions, and sparkles. An important contribution to current debates. * Davina Cooper, King’s College London, UK * This volume provides a valuable overview of thinking and research about forms of polarization related to LGBTQIA+ lives and movements. It challenges readers to consider the nature of such polarization and indeed to examine the utility and meaning of the concept of polarization as applied to LGBTQIA+ issues. Taken together, the chapters traverse time periods from the late 20th century to the present and a range of geographic locations, giving consideration to forms of polarization within LGBTQIA+ communities as well as more familiar divisions between advocates and opponents of LGBTQIA+ rights. The book demonstrates how polarization related to LGBTQIA+ issues does not always map neatly onto existing left/right political divisions. * Kathy Hull, University of Minnesota, USA *
