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Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (Routledge Studies in North American Politics) | 
| Author: Miriam Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 230
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0415988713
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.32640973
EAN: 9780415988711
ASIN: 0415988713
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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Product Description
Lesbian 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.
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Excellent July 16, 2008
KJW (Canada)
This outstanding text is useful for those with a general interest in this area as well as for scholars whose expertise lies in areas such as law, political science or history.
I am using this text for my graduate class in public law this fall and highly recommend it to colleagues at other universities. It is well written, carefully organized and provides both thoughtful and original insights into the impact of the judiciary on policy arrangements.
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