About Canada: Queer Rights - Couverture souple

Knegt, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552664376 ISBN 13 : 9781552664377

Editeur : Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of homosexuality what the lesbian and gay liberation movement of the early 1970s fought for? Using the origins of this movement as a starting point, About Canada: Queer Rights examines the history of the struggle for queer rights in Canada to create a better understanding of the present. What Peter Knegt finds is that Canada’s queer people are as diverse and multicultural as Canada itself – they are not easily generalized and have most certainly not achieved equality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Knegt is the associate editor of "indieWIRE" and holds a position on the advisory board
of the University of Toronto's Center for Sexual Diversity Studies. He has contributed to "Exclaim
"magazine, "IN Toronto "magazine, "Playback," the "Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity
Studies," "Variety," and "Xtra!" He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552664376
• ISBN 13: 9781552664377
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 143
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible