Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law - Couverture souple

Bernstein, Mary; Marshall, Anna-Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081479131X ISBN 13 : 9780814791318

Editeur : New York University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 together, enriching our understanding of social movements, LGBT politics and organizing, legal studies, and public policy. Moreover, they highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community. Ultimately, Queer Mobilizations examines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society.
Contributors: Ellen Ann Andersen, Steven A. Boutcher, Bayliss Camp, Casey Charles, Ashley Currier, Courtenay W. Daum, Shauna Fisher, David John Frank, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Charles W. Gossett, Marybeth Herald, Nicholas Pedriana, Darren Rosenblum, Susan M. Sterett, and Amy L. Stone.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mary Bernstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and co-editor of Queer Families, Queer Politics.

Anna-Maria Marshall is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of Confronting Sexual Harassment.

Scott Barclay is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Albany, SUNY and author of An Appealing Act.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081479131X
• ISBN 13: 9780814791318
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Barclay Scott
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible