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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2025

Julie Moreau
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University of Toronto
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This chapter introduces the book’s motivation: to understand how activists use identity to manage the apparent contradiction between the promises of legal inclusion and persistent forms of marginalization. The chapter illustrates the importance of the issue through discussion of the activism of two lesbian groups – Free Gender in Cape Town, South Africa, and La Fulana in Buenos Aires, Argentina – that form the focus on the book. Both organizations strategize sexual identity in tandem with other racial, class, and gender identities, albeit in different ways. The chapter presents the conceptual background of the book, which adopts a historical approach to understanding LGBT inclusion into citizenship and explains the relevance of intersectionality to contemporary LGBT organizing. The chapter previews the theoretical framework developed in Chapter 1 that accounts for key differences in how the two organizations strategically use multiple identities. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some of the methodological aspects of the research and presents the plan for the rest of the book.

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After Equality
LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa
, pp. 1 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Introduction
  • Julie Moreau, University of Toronto
  • Book: After Equality
  • Online publication: 19 June 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009592963.001
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  • Introduction
  • Julie Moreau, University of Toronto
  • Book: After Equality
  • Online publication: 19 June 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009592963.001
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  • Introduction
  • Julie Moreau, University of Toronto
  • Book: After Equality
  • Online publication: 19 June 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009592963.001
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