1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786726903321

Autore

Richards David A. J.

Titolo

The rise of gay rights and the fall of the British empire : liberal resistance and the Bloomsbury group / / David A. J. Richards, New York University School of Law [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-06592-5

1-316-09076-0

1-139-80568-1

1-107-05734-5

1-107-25587-2

1-107-05855-4

1-107-05978-X

1-107-05623-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

323.3/264

Soggetti

Gay rights

Gay rights - Great Britain

Patriarchy

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Patriarchy and democracy -- Imperialism and patriarchy -- The rise of gay rights -- The fall of empire -- The fall of empire from the rise of gay rights to the 1967 decriminalization -- The fall of empire in the era of gay rights in the United States and Britain -- A. American resistance movements -- B. Impact on Britain and elsewhere -- Conservative reaction in the United States -- Limited impact on Britain and elsewhere -- Gay rights in former British colonies : legacy of empire? -- Canada -- South Africa -- India -- Gay rights as universal human rights -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights.



It examines the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the USA, showing the importance of fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and womanhood to countering imperialism. Advocates of feminism and gay rights are key because they resist the gender binary's role in rationalizing sexism and homophobia. The connection between the rise of gay rights and the fall of empire illuminates questions of the meaning of democracy and universal human rights as shared human values that have appeared since World War II. The book casts doubt on the thesis that arguments for gay rights must be extrinsic to democracy and reflect Western values. To the contrary, gay rights arise from within liberal democracy, and its critics polemically use such opposition to cover and rationalize their own failures of democracy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781020403321

Autore

Duin Pieter van

Titolo

Central European crossroads : social democracy and national revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921 / / Pieter C. van Duin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62777-5

9786612627774

1-84545-918-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; v. 14

Disciplina

943.73/1024

943.73024

943.731024

Soggetti

Labor movement - Slovakia - Bratislava - History

Socialism - Slovakia - Bratislava - History

Nationalism - Slovakia - Bratislava - History

Bratislava (Slovakia) Politics and government 19th century

Bratislava (Slovakia) Politics and government 20th century

Bratislava (Slovakia) Ethnic relations

Slovakia History 1800-1918

Slovakia History 1918-1945

Hungary History Revolution, 1918-1919

Hungary History 1867-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-446) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-Central European Crossroads; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I-Contexts, 1867-1918; Chapter 1-Defining The Issue; Chapter 2-In 'Darkest Hungary'; Chapter 3-Pressburg: A Multi-Ethnic Crossroads; Chapter 4-Social Democracy and the National Question; Part II-Events, 1918-1919; Chapter 5-Revolution and Reorientation: October-December 1918; Chapter 6-From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: January 1919; Chapter 7-Hope and Hatred: February 1919; Chapter 8-Protest and Pragmatism After the February Crisis; Part III-Results, 1919-1921; Chapter 9-Social Democracy Triumphant and Fragmented

Chapter 10-Conclusion and Perspectives Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today's scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the history of the multi-ethnic social democratic labor movement in Slovakia's capital Bratislava during the period 1867-1921, and on the process of national revolution during the years 1918-19 in particular.