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Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law
Mary Bernstein
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Description for Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law
Paperback. These essays highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community Editor(s): Barclay, Scott. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPW; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814791318
SKU
V9780814791318
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About Mary Bernstein
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.
Reviews for Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law
This book offers a brilliant introduction to the complexity of the relationship between the law and LGBT issues.
Social Movement Studies
Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome ... Read more
Social Movement Studies
Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome ... Read more