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Identity and the case for gay rights : race, gender, religion as analogies / David A.J. Richards.
Van Pelt Library HQ76.8.U5 R53 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, David A. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay rights--United States.
- Gay rights.
- United States.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- Women's rights--United States.
- Women's rights.
- Freedom of religion--United States.
- Freedom of religion.
- Gay people--United States--Identity.
- Gay people.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Identity (Psychology)--United States.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 234 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- How should we chart a course toward legal recognition of gay rights as basic human rights? In this enlightening study, legal scholar David Richards explores the connections between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements -- black civil rights feminism, and religious toleration -- to determine how these might serve as analogies for the gay rights movement.
- Richards argues that racial and gender struggles are informative but partial models. As in these movements, achieving gay rights requires eliminating unjust stereotypes and allocating one's identity to develop free from intolerant views. Richards stresses, however, that gay identity is an ethical choice based on gender equality. Thus the right to religious freedom offers the most compelling analogy for a gay rights movement because gay identity should be protected legally as an ethical decision of conscience.
- A thoughtful and highly original voice in the struggle for gay rights, David Richards is the First to argue that discrimination is like religious intolerance -- denial of full humanity to individuals because of their identity and moral commitments to gender equality.
- Contents:
- 1. The Racial Analogy 6
- 2. The Gender Analogy 39
- The Analogy between Race and Gender 41
- The Analogy between Gender and Sexual Orientation 65
- 3. The Religious Analogy 84
- Anti-Lesbian/Gay Initiatives 110
- Exclusion from the Military 129
- Same-Sex Marriage 153
- 4. Identity and Justice 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226712087
- 0226712095
- OCLC:
- 41516486
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