1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784273903321

Autore

Pierceson Jason

Titolo

Courts Liberalism And Rights [[electronic resource] ] : Gay Law And Politics In The United States and Canada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-09399-8

9786611093990

1-59213-402-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Queer Politics Queer Theories

Disciplina

306.7660973

342.7108/7

342.71087

Soggetti

Canada

Courts

Gay rights

Homosexuality

Law and legislation

Liberalism

United States

Homosexuality - Law and legislation - United States

Gay rights - Law and legislation - United States

Homosexuality - Canada

Gay rights - Canada

Constitutional Law - U.S

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996199896003316

Titolo

EMC Anesthésie-réanimation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Paris], : [Éditions scientifique et médicales Elsevier SAS]

ISSN

1638-6205

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 volumes)

Soggetti

Anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Critical care medicine

Emergency medicine

Critical Care

Emergency Medicine

Anesthésie

Réanimation

Anesthésiologie

Médecine d'urgence

Soins intensifs

Periodicals.

Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme)

Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)



Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"An 'Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale' publication"--Publisher information page (Elsevier, viewed July 5, 2004).

Title from journal homepage (ScienceDirect, viewed July 5, 2004).

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Sommario/riassunto

"This journal (online only) publishes mainly review articles in French, covering all fields [of] anaesthesia and intensive care"--Publisher information page (Elsevier, viewed July 5, 2004).