{"id":267,"date":"2018-04-02T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-04-02T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:33:56","slug":"week-11-duggan-equality-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-11-duggan-equality-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11 &#8211; Duggan Equality, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Lisa Duggan\u2019s book, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Equality, Inc.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Duggan says, \u201c\u2018Equality\u2019 becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservativizing institutions, \u2018freedom\u2019 becomes immunity for bigotry and vast inequalities in commercial life and civil society, the \u2018right to privacy\u2019 becomes domestic confinement, and democratic politics itself becomes something to be escaped\u201d (65-66). Duggan example of equality becoming narrow is what she refers to as \u201cgay tunnel vision\u201d which focuses on issues such as marriage equality rather than issues faced by disadvantaged populations within the queer community. Her reference to conservativizing institutions relates to the Human Rights Campaign sponsoring things like pride marches. She mentions how institutions like the Human Rights Campaign do not focus on the true issues queer communities face but rather superficial issues that primarily affect upper middle class cis white gay men. They also make a profit on these fights for equality. Further, Duggan\u2019s mention of freedom reinforces her idea of gay tunnel vision in that many within the queer face inequalities that are not addressed. Finally, Duggan mentions the \u201cright to privacy\u201d becoming \u201cdomestic confinement\u201d because many queer issues have been limited to issues such as gay marriage which is an attempt to assimilate to straight heteronormative ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Duggan, \u201cEquality, Inc.,\u201d in The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the Attack on Democracy (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003), 43-66.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Lisa Duggan\u2019s book, Equality, Inc., Duggan says, \u201c\u2018Equality\u2019 becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservativizing institutions, \u2018freedom\u2019 becomes immunity for bigotry and vast inequalities in commercial life and civil society, the \u2018right to privacy\u2019 becomes domestic confinement, and democratic politics itself becomes something to be escaped\u201d (65-66). Duggan example of equality becoming narrow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-11-duggan-equality-inc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 11 &#8211; Duggan Equality, Inc.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}