Search Results - LGBT rights

Special issue social movements/legal possibilities /

Table of Contents: “…Jones, Anna-Maria Marshall -- Decolonizing the law : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa / Ashley Currier -- Social movements and the state's construction of identity : the case of Muslims in France / Jennifer Fredette -- Rejecting rights : the disability critique of physician assisted suicide / Katharina Heyer -- Social movements lashing back : law, social change and intra-social movement backlash in Canada / Lisa Vanhala -- Protest arrests and future protest participation : the 2004 Republican National Convention arrestees and the effects of repression / Jennifer Earl -- Convincing elites, controlling elites / Douglas NeJaime -- After 9/11 : Guantánamo and the mobilization of lawyers / Devyani Prabhat.…”
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Studies in law, politics, and society.

Table of Contents: “…Judging knowledge : the court as arbiter of social scientific knowledge and expertise in LGBT custody and adoption cases / Kimberly D. Richman -- Fathers' rights, feminism and Canadian divorce law reform : 1998-2003 / Ruth M. …”
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Race in the age of Obama.

Table of Contents: “…Sociologists for Obama : scholarly activism in a presidential campaign / Donald Cunnigen, Robert Newby -- The race problematic in the age of Barack Obama / Rickey Hill -- LGBT politics and rights through the Obama era : President Barack Obama's evolution on LGBT issues / Ravi K. …”
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Gender, sex, and sexuality among contemporary youth /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- "Dare to be Different" : how religious groups frame and enact appropriate sexuality and gender norms among young adults -- Estimating the status and needs of homeless LGBT adolescents: advocacy, identity, and the dialectics of support -- The intersex kids are all right? …”
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