Women Gays And The Constitution

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712079
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Gays, and the Constitution written by David A. J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and growing impact of two of the most important and challenging human rights movements of our time, feminism and gay rights. Richards argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism that condemned both American racism and sexism. He sees the progressive role of such radical dissent as an emancipated moral voice in the American constitutional tradition. He examines the role of dissident African Americans, Jews, women, and homosexuals in forging alternative visions of rights-based democracy. He also draws special attention to Walt Whitman's visionary poetry, showing how it made space for the silenced and subjugated voices of homosexuals in public and private culture. According to Richards, contemporary feminism rediscovers and elaborates this earlier tradition. And, similarly, the movement for gay rights builds upon an interpretation of abolitionist feminism developed by Whitman in his defense, both in poetry and prose, of love between men. Richards explores Whitman's impact on pro-gay advocates, including John Addington Symonds, Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Oscar Wilde, and André Gide. He also discusses other diverse writers and reformers such as Margaret Sanger, Franz Boas, Elizabeth Stanton, W. E. B. DuBois, and Adrienne Rich. Richards addresses current controversies such as the exclusion of homosexuals from the military and from the right to marriage and concludes with a powerful defense of the struggle for such constitutional rights in terms of the principles of rights-based feminism.

Author : Vincent Samar
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903786
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right To Privacy written by Vincent Samar and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the reasons why and the degree to which privacy should be protected.

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107174295
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution written by Evan Gerstmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written and accessible explanation of the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision, its reasoning, and the consequences and controversies surrounding it.

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226288598
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Underclass written by Evan Gerstmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's Amendment 2—which would have nullified all state and local laws protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination—it was widely regarded as a victory for gay rights. Yet many gays and lesbians still risk losing their jobs, custody of their children, and even their liberty under the law. Using the Colorado initiative as his focus, Gerstmann untangles the complex standards and subtle rhetoric the Supreme Court uses to apply the equal protection clause. The Court divides people into legal classes that receive varying levels of protection; gays and lesbians and other groups, such as the elderly and the poor, receive the least. Gerstmann reveals how these standards are used to favor certain groups over others, and also how Amendment 2 advocates used the Court's doctrine to convince voters that gays and lesbians were seeking "special rights" in Colorado. Concluding with a call for wholesale reform of equal-protection jurisprudence, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in fair, coherent, and truly equal protection under the law.

Author : Michael Nava
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466887397
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created Equal written by Michael Nava and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the religious right, the authors show how this sectarian movement to legislate private religious morality into law undermines the purpose of American constitutional government: the protection of the individual's right to determine how best to live his or her life. The book starts from the premise that gay men and lesbians are, first and foremost, American citizens, and then looks to what rights belong to every individual American citizen, arguing from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Addressing their argument to the great majority of their fellow Americans, Dawidoff and Nava emphasize that what is at stake is not the fate of the gay community, but the future of constitutional principle and the rights of free individuals in American society.

Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493655
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century written by Geoffrey R. Stone and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University). Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have legislated sexual behavior from America’s earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. This “fascinating and maddening” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) narrative shows how agitators, moralists, and, especially, the justices of the Supreme Court have navigated issues as divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity or abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters, including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, enliven this “commanding synthesis of scholarship” (Publishers Weekly) that dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316802760
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution written by Evan Gerstmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015 the Supreme Court made history by ruling that the constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. The third edition of perhaps the most influential book on the subject explains the Court's reasoning and what the consequences of the decision have been. The book also explains why the Supreme Court declined to rule that a ban on same-sex marriage was irrational or hateful or that the ban was an indirect form of gender discrimination. Instead, the Court ruled that there is a fundamental constitutional right to marry that covers same-sex couples. The book discusses the dissent's claims that the decision will lead to constitutional protection for polygamy. It also covers the controversy over whether there should be special laws that allow religious business owners not to serve same-sex couples who are married. This book is free of jargon and is accessible to anyone interested in same-sex equality, the Supreme Court or constitutional law generally.

Author : Arthur S. Leonard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815326366
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality and the Constitution: Homosexual conduct and state regulation written by Arthur S. Leonard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Gottfried Hollander
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477775145
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage Rights and Gay Rights written by Barbara Gottfried Hollander and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One would think that by now the issue of marriage and the simple right for two people who love one another to be together would be settled. Even in the 21st century, people ask, "What is marriage?" Although the word "marriage" isn't even mentioned in the Constitution, readers will learn why this issue has been a subject of debate for years, whether for interracial or same-sex couples. Primary source documents, quotes, and explanations of Supreme Court rulings help set the scene and tell the evolving tale of equality for marriage rights in the United States.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Gay Rights written by David A. J. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Americans wrestle with debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, legal scholar Richards reflects upon the constitutional and democratic principles--relating to privacy, intimate life, free speech, tolerance, and conscience--that underpin these often heated debates. The distillation of Richards's thirty-year advocacy for the rights of gays and lesbians, his book provides a reflective treatise on basic human rights that touch all of our lives. He places in context two key Supreme Court cases: the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision, and the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision which overturned it. Drawing upon his own experiences as a gay man, Richards interweaves personal observations with philosophical, political, judicial, and psychological insights to make a case that gays should be entitled to the same rights and protections that every American enjoys.--From publisher description.