Walter Frank

Law and the Gay Rights Story

The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

 In this gripping new book, legal expert Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at pivotal court cases in the struggle for gay rights. Along the way, he tells the story of the individuals who were willing to take risks by fighting for those rights. Bringing complex legal issues down to earth for the non-lawyer, Law and the Gay Rights Story not only provides a vivid chronicle of the past fifty years, but also explores where the battle for gay rights might go from here. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780813568713
• ISBN-10: 0813568714
• Artikelnr.: 40046066

Autorenporträt

Frank, Walter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I The Freedom Struggle (1945–1992)
1 Isolation, Oppression and Emergence (1945–1969)
2 Stonewall (1969)
3 Invisible No Longer (1969–1981)
4 The AIDS Crisis and Its Legacy (1981–92)
Part II The Struggle for Legal Equality (1993 to the Present)
5 Three Key Developments
6 The Debate Over Gay Rights
7 The Workplace
8 Freedom from Violence; Freedom to Serve
9 The Public School Struggle
10 The Gay Family
11 The Movement’s Critics
Part III The Right to Marry
12 The State Constitutional Battles
13 The Supreme Court Confronts Same Sex Marriage
Suggested Readings
References
Cases Cited
Index