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Courts, liberalism, and rights : gay law and politics in the United States and Canada / Jason Pierceson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierceson, Jason, 1972-
- Series:
- Queer politics, queer theories.
- Queer politics, queer theories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--Law and legislation--United States.
- Homosexuality.
- Gay rights--United States.
- Gay rights.
- Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Canada.
- Gay rights--Canada.
- Courts.
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of court
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy; 3 Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics; 4 Toward a Better Liberalism; 5 Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism; 6 Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication; 7 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States:Hawaii and Alaska; 8 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont; 9 Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash; 10 Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism; 11 Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism
- 12 ConclusionNotes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611093990
- 9781281093998
- 1281093998
- 9781592134021
- 1592134025
- OCLC:
- 476074918
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