Rainbow rights / Patricia A. Cain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cain, Patricia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 316 p.).

Other Title:

Rainbow rights : the role of lawyers and courts in the lesbian and gay civil rights movement

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2000.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

Summary:

This book describes the substantive state of the law with regard to lesbian and gay rights.

It begins with some background information to put the modern fight for lesbian and gay rights in its proper historical context, then categorizes lesbian and gay rights claims into three areas - individual rights in private contexts, individual rights in public contexts, and couple or family rights thought of as private but pushing into the public sphere - that add up to a single principle: the right to be human in a modern society."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

1. Earlier Civil Rights Movements: Lessons to Be Learned

2. Lawyers, Legal Theories, and Litigation Strategy

3. Public Rights: 1950-1985

4. Private Rights: 1950-1985

5. When Private Becomes Public: Coupling in the Public Sphere, 1950-1985

6. Bowers v. Hardwick

7. Public Sphere Rights Post-Bowers v. Hardwick

8. Private Sphere Rights Post-Bowers v. Hardwick

9. Public Recognition of Private Relationships Post-Bowers v. Hardwick

10. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

170921732