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Author: Miriam Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-08-18
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1135859205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines why the US and Canada have produced such divergent policy outcomes in affording rights to their gay and lesbian citizens. Smith's contribution will prove vital as movements for lesbian and gay rights continue to recast the social landscape in North America and beyond.
Author: Miriam Catherine Smith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780802081971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing archival material that has largely been ignored, as well as interviews with Canadian activists, Smith investigates the ways in which the Canadian lesbian and gay movement has changed in response to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Author: Miriam Catherine Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780415988711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in areas such as employment discrimination are still unavailable to many in the United States. This book examines why these similar societies have produced such divergent policy outcomes, focusing on how differences between the political institutions of the U.S. and Canada have shaped the terrain of social movement and counter-movement mobilization. It analyzes cross-national variance in public policies toward lesbians and gay men, especially in the areas of the decriminalization of sodomy, the passage of anti-discrimination laws, and the enactment of measures to recognize same-sex relationships. For political science, sociology, and queer studies alike, this book will prove vital as movements for lesbian and gay rights continue to recast the social landscape in North America and beyond.
Author: Donald W. McLeod
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780968382936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathleen A. Lahey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780802080622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people.
Author: Manon Tremblay
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0774861843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorate’s characteristics and voting behaviours? What part do the media play in framing straight voters’ perceptions of out LGBTQ politicians? What pathways to power do LGBTQ politicians follow? Do they represent LGBTQ people and communities, and if so, how is this role articulated? And finally, how do Canadian party ideologies shape LGBTQ representation?
Author: John Fisher
Publisher: Egale Canada
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780973445701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Kinsman
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0774859024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the "war on terror."
Author: Richard Mohr
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0231135211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard D. Mohr adopts a humanistic and philosophical approach to assessing public policy issues affecting homosexuals. His nuanced case for legal and social acceptance applies widely held ethical principles to various issues, including same-sex marriage, AIDS, and gays in the military. Mohr examines the nature of prejudices and other cultural forces that work against lesbian and gay causes and considers the role that sexuality plays in national rituals. In his support of same-sex marriage, Mohr defines matrimony as the development and maintenance of intimacy through which people meet their basic needs and carry out their everyday living, and he contends that this definition applies equally to homosexual and heterosexual couples. By drawing on culturally, legally, and ethically based arguments, Mohr moves away from tired political rhetoric and reveals the important ways in which the struggle for gay rights and acceptance relates to mainstream American society, history, and political life.
Author: Dr David Paternotte
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-01-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1409494578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy analyzing the relationship between lesbian and gay movements and the state, this ground-breaking book addresses two interconnected issues: to what extent is the lesbian and gay movement influenced by the state and, to a lesser extent, whether the lesbian and gay movement has somehow influenced the state, for instance by altering forms of sexual regulation. Given the diversity in national trajectories, this book covers fifteen countries. This enables the volume to shed light on different kinds of relationships between these groups and the state, as well as on the way they have evolved in recent decades. The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship fills an important gap in the literature on lesbian and gay activism. However, this book also provides important and innovative insights into broader issues in international political science, public policy and comparative politics, as well as issues in social movement studies. These include the role of the state in constructing citizen identities, the heteronormative way in which many traditional citizen entitlements and benefits were constructed, state - civil society relations, judicial activism, the impact of federalism, and the increasing globalization of sexual identities.
