Queer Mobilizations : : LGBT Activists Confront the Law / / Anna-Maria Marshall, Mary Bernstein; ed. by Scott Barclay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bernstein, Mary,; Marshall, Anna-Maria,
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Ellen Ann,; Barclay, Scott,; Bernstein, Mary,; Boutcher, Steven A.,; Camp, Bayliss,; Charles, Casey,; Currier, Ashley,; Daum, Courtenay W.,; Fisher, Shauna,; Frank, David John,; Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan,; Gossett, Charles W.,; Herald, Marybeth,; Marshall, Anna-Maria,; Pedriana, Nicholas,; Rosenblum, Darren,; Sterett, Susan M.,; Stone, Amy L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Barclay, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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, legal studies, and public policy. Moreover, they highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community. Ultimately, Queer Mobilizations examines how the LGBT movement’s engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society.Contributors: Ellen Ann Andersen, Steven A. Boutcher, Bayliss Camp, Casey Charles, Ashley Currier, Courtenay W. Daum, Shauna Fisher, David John Frank, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Charles W. Gossett, Marybeth Herald, Nicholas Pedriana, Darren Rosenblum, Susan M. Sterett, and Amy L. Stone.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Challenge of Law: Sexual Orientation, 1 Gender Identity, and Social Movements -- Part I. Social Movement Strategies and the Law -- 2. Deferral of Legal Tactics: A Global LGBT Social Movement Organization’s Perspective -- 3. Queer Legal Victories: Intersectionality Revisited -- 4. Intimate Equality: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement’s Legal Framing of Sodomy Laws in the Lawrence v. Texas Case -- 5. Deciding Under the Influence? The “One-Hit Wonders” and Organized-Interest Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Gay Rights Litigation -- 6. Parents and Paperwork: Same-Sex Parents, Birth Certificates, and Emergent Legality -- Part II. Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change -- 7. The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective -- 8. Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Transgender Inclusion in Nondiscrimination Ordinances -- 9. Pushing the Envelope: Dillon’s Rule and Local Domestic-Partnership Ordinances -- 10. Explaining the Differences: Transgender 187 Theories and Court Practice -- Part III. Legal Symbols: Constraints and Possibilities -- 11. It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango: Fighting With Words in the Conflict Over Same-Sex Marriage -- 12. Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Reading the Iconography of Special Rights -- 13. A Jury of One’s Queers: Revisiting the Dan White Trial Casey Charles -- 14. The Gay Divorcée: The Case of the Missing Argument -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index