| Description |
xi, 316 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
New perspectives on law, culture, and society
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New perspectives on law, culture, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-312) and index. |
| Contents |
Why Rainbow Rights? -- Making "Rights" Arguments -- Courts Versus Legislatures -- Earlier Civil Rights Movements: Lessons to Be Learned -- Civil Rights Movement for Race Equality -- Civil Rights Movement for Gender Equality -- Legacies and Lessons -- Lawyers, Legal Theories, and Litigation Strategy -- Public Interest Lawyers -- Lesbian and Gay Public Interest Lawyering -- Legal Theories and Litigation Strategy -- Public Rights: 1950-1985 -- Gay and Lesbian Battles over Public Space -- Gay and Lesbian Bars -- Student Groups: Access to Public Space in Universities -- High School Prom: Access to Public Space in Secondary Schools -- Employment Rights -- Direct Restrictions on Public Speech -- Private Rights: 1950-1985 -- Criminalization of Sodomy -- Wolfenden Report -- ALI Project -- Early Constitutional Challenges to Sodomy Statutes -- Solicitation to Commit Sodomy and Lewd and Lascivious Conduct -- Family Rights -- When Private Becomes Public: Coupling in the Public Sphere, 1950-1985 -- Marriage -- Immigration -- Adult Adoption -- Bowers v. Hardwick -- Early Sodomy Challenges: The Road to Bowers v. Hardwick -- Bowers v. Hardwick -- Aftermath -- Public Sphere Rights Post-Bowers v. Hardwick -- Hardwick's Effect on Equal Protection Claims: One Court Makes the Connection Between Sodomy Laws and Discrimination -- Responding to Padula: The Birth of the Status Versus Conduct Distinction -- Military Cases -- Supreme Court Victory: Romer v. Evans -- Romer's Long-Term Effect on Antigay Ballot Initiatives. |
| Summary |
"This book describes the substantive state of the law with regard to lesbian and gay rights. It begins with some background information to put the modern fight for lesbian and gay rights in its proper historical context, then categorizes lesbian and gay rights claims into three areas - individual rights in private contexts, individual rights in public contexts, and couple or family rights thought of as private but pushing into the public sphere - that add up to a single principle: the right to be human in a modern society."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Gay rights -- United States.
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Gay rights. |
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United States. |
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Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Homosexuality -- Law and legislation. |
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History. |
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Gay rights. |
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Homosexuality. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Cain, Patricia A. Rainbow rights. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606348712 |
| ISBN |
0813326184 alkaline paper |
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9780813326184 alkaline paper |
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0813326176 alkaline paper |
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9780813326177 alkaline paper |
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