Women, gays, and the constitution : the grounds for feminism and gay rights in culture and law
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Women, gays, and the constitution : the grounds for feminism and gay rights in culture and law
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-504) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780226712062
Description
This study combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human rights movements: feminism and gay rights. The text argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism which condemns both American racism and sexism. It examines the role of dissident African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals in forging alternative visions of rights-based democracy. The book draws attention to Walt Whitman's visionary poetry, exploring Whitman's impact on pro-gay advocates such as Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide. It also discusses writers and reformers such as Margaret Sanger, Franz Boas, Elizabeth Stanton and Adrienne Rich. The study addresses recent controversies such as the exclusion of homosexuals from the military and from the right of marriage, and concludes with a defence of the struggle for such constitutional rights.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Interpretive Challenge 2: Abolitionist Antislavery and Antiracism 3: Abolitionist Feminism 4: Suffrage Feminism: Struggle, Triumph, Collapse 5: Second Wave Feminism as Abolitionist Feminism 6: The Case for Gay Rights 7: Unconstitutionality of Antigay/Lesbian Initiatives 8: The Case for Gay Rights: The Military and Marriage 9: Conclusion: Identity and Justice Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226712079
Description
This study combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human rights movements: feminism and gay rights. The text argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism which condemns both American racism and sexism. It examines the role of dissident African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals in forging alternative visions of rights-based democracy. The book draws attention to Walt Whitman's visionary poetry, exploring Whitman's impact on pro-gay advocates such as Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide. It also discusses writers and reformers such as Margaret Sanger, Franz Boas, Elizabeth Stanton and Adrienne Rich. The study addresses recent controversies such as the exclusion of homosexuals from the military and from the right of marriage, and concludes with a defence of the struggle for such constitutional rights.
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