Courts, liberalism, and rights : gay law and politics in the United States and Canada / / Jason Pierceson
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| Autore: |
Pierceson Jason <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Courts, liberalism, and rights : gay law and politics in the United States and Canada / / Jason Pierceson
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 342.7108/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality - Law and legislation - United States |
| Gay rights - United States | |
| Homosexuality - Law and legislation - Canada | |
| Gay rights - Canada | |
| Courts | |
| Liberalism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-246) and index. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Courts, liberalism, and rights |
| ISBN: | 9786611093990 |
| 9781281093998 | |
| 1281093998 | |
| 9781592134021 | |
| 1592134025 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956533003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Queer politics, queer theories.