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Autore |
Pierceson Jason <1972-> |
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Courts, liberalism, and rights : gay law and politics in the United States and Canada / / Jason Pierceson |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005 |
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9786611093990 |
9781281093998 |
1281093998 |
9781592134021 |
1592134025 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Queer politics, queer theories |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality - Law and legislation - United States |
Gay rights - United States |
Homosexuality - Law and legislation - Canada |
Gay rights - Canada |
Courts |
Liberalism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-246) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy; 3 Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics; 4 Toward a Better Liberalism; 5 Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism; 6 Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication; 7 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States:Hawaii and Alaska; 8 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont; 9 Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash; 10 Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism; 11 Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism |
12 ConclusionNotes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. |
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At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of court |
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