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Queer Mobilizations : LGBT Activists Confront the Law / edited by Scott Barclay, Mary Bernstein, and Anna-Maria Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Mary, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay rights--United States.
- Gay rights.
- Homosexuality--Law and legislation--United States.
- Homosexuality.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fighting for marriage and family rights; protection from discrimination in employment, education, and housing; criminal law reform; economic justice; and health care reform: the LGBT movement is engaged in some of the most important cultural and political battles of our times. Seeking to reshape many of our basic social institutions, the LBGT movement's legal, political, and cultural campaigns reflect the complex visions, strategies, and rhetoric of the individuals and groups knocking at the law's door. The original essays in this volume bring social movement scholarship and legal analysis tog
- Contents:
- The challenge of law : sexual orientation, gender identity, and social movements / Mary Bernstein, Anna-Maria Marshall, and Scott Barclay
- Deferral of legal tactics : a global LBGT social movement organization's perspective / Ashley Currier
- Queer legal victories : intersectionality revisited / Darren Rosenblum
- Intimate equality : the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement's legal framing of sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas case / Nicholas Pedriana
- Deciding under the influence? The "one-hit wonders" and organized-interest participation in U.S. Supreme Court gay rights litigation / Courtenay W. Daum
- Parents and paperwork : same-sex parents, birth certificates, and emergent legality / Susan M. Sterett
- The reform of sodomy laws from a world society perspective / David John Frank, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp
- Like sexual orientation? Like gender? Transgender inclusion in nondiscrimination ordinances / Amy L. Stone
- Pushing the envelope : Dillon's rule and local domestic-partnership ordinances / Charles W. Gossett
- Explaining the differences : transgender theories and court practice / Marybeth Herald
- It takes (at least) two to tango : fighting with words in the conflict over same-sex marriage / Shauna Fisher
- Do civil rights have a face? Reading the iconography of special rights / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
- A jury of one's queers : revisiting the Dan White trial / Casey Charles
- The gay divorcee : the case of the missing argument / Ellen Ann Andersen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-353) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-3903-2
- OCLC:
- 779828114
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