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Identity & the Case for Gay Rights � Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies (Paper)
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Identity & the Case for Gay Rights � Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies (Paper) Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Richards, David A. J

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 241 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches.
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  • Title Identity & the Case for Gay Rights � Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies (Paper)
  • Author Richards, David A. J
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Chicago Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __0226712095
  • ISBN 9780226712093 / 0226712095
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.56 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Freedom of religion - United States, African Americans - Civil rights
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99032745
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.906

From the publisher

How should we chart a course toward legal recognition of gay rights as basic human rights? In this enlightening study, legal scholar David Richards explores the connections between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements-black civil rights, feminism, and religious toleration-to determine how these might serve as analogies for the gay rights movement.

Richards argues that racial and gender struggles are informative but partial models. As in these movements, achieving gay rights requires eliminating unjust stereotypes and allowing one's identity to develop free from intolerant views. Richards stresses, however, that gay identity is an ethical choice based on gender equality. Thus the right to religious freedom offers the most compelling analogy for a gay rights movement because gay identity should be protected legally as an ethical decision of conscience.

A thoughtful and highly original voice in the struggle for gay rights, David Richards is the first to argue that discrimination is like religious intolerance-denial of full humanity to individuals because of their identity and moral commitments to gender equality.

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The struggle for racial justice plays a central role in American interpretive understanding of the Reconstruction Amendments both as their background in the antebellum abolitionist movement and in the successful African American struggle, after their ratification, to rectify the crudely racist interpretation they had irresponsibly been given by the judiciary.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 01/01/2000, Page 140
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2000, Page 109