Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet / William N. Eskridge, Jr.

9780674036581 (electronic bk.)
0674036581 (electronic bk.)
0674008049
9780674008045
0674341619 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780674341616 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

English

1 online resource (ix, 470 pages)

KF4754.5 .E84 1999eb

(OCoLC)456207563

This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. The text is split into three parts covering the post-Civil war period to the 1980s, contemporary issues and legal arguments.
This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. Part one, which covers the years from the post-Civil War to the 1980s, is a history of state efforts to discipline and punish the behaviour of homosexuals and other people considered to be deviant. during this period such people could get by only at the cost of suppressing their most basic feelings and emotions. Part two addresses contemporary issues. although it is no longer illegal to be openly gay in America, homosexuals still suffer from state discrimination in the military and in other realms, and private discrimination and violence against gays is prevalent. The author presents a rigorously argued case for the "sexualization" of the First Amendment, showing why, for example, same-sex ceremonies and intimacy should be considered "expressive conduct" deserving the protection of the courts.;He draws on legal reasoning, sociological studies, and history to develop an effective response to the arguments made in defense of the military ban. The concluding part of the book locales the author's legal arguments within the larger currents of liberal theory and integrates them into a general stance toward freedom, gender equality, and religious pluralism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-461) and index.

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (American Library Association), 2001

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Print version: Eskridge, William N. Gaylaw. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999

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