Queer Mobilizations : : LGBT Activists Confront the Law /

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

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 man...

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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
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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

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