Activism
Advocacy
African Americans
Bisexuality
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Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
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Exclusion
Feminism
Gay bar
Gay liberation
Gender role
Heteronormativity
Heterosexism
Heterosexuality
Homophile
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Household
Human Rights Campaign
Human sexuality
Identity politics
Ideology
Institution
Left-wing politics
Legislation
Lesbian
LGBT
LGBT community
LGBT rights by country or territory
Minority group
New social movements
Oppression
Political agenda
Political culture
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Political philosophy
Political science
Political strategy
Politician
Politics
Postmodernism
Prostitution
Protest
Public opinion
Public policy
Public sphere
Queer
Queer Nation
Queer studies
Queer theory
Racism
Reproductive health
Reproductive rights
Right-wing politics
Routledge
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex relationship
Sexism
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Sexual Preference (book)
Slavery
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Social theory
Sodomy law
Stonewall riots
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Transgender
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Urban politics
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- ISBN 9780691058672
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered--what has come to be known as "lgbt" or "queer" politics. Compared to the humanities and to other social sciences, political science has been slow to address this phenomenon. Issues ranging from housing to adoption to laws on sodomy, however, have increasingly raised important political questions about the rights and status of sexual minorities, particularly within liberal democracies such as the United States, and also on an international level. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline's main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in several regions around the world. Focusing on the politics of sexuality with regard to the politics of knowledge, the book presents a discussion of power that will interest all political scientists and others concerned with minority rights and gender as well as with transformation in the relations between public and private.
The articles cover such topics as lgbt power in urban politics, the impact of public opinion on lgbt life, means of effecting legal and political change in the United States, and international differences in lgbt political activism. The authors represent a new cadre of political scientists who are creating an interdisciplinary domain of research that is informed by and in turn generates political activism. They are Dennis Altman, M. V. Lee Badgett, Robert W. Bailey, Mark Blasius, Cathy J. Cohen, Timothy E. Cook, Paisley Currah, Juanita Diaz-Cotto, Jan-Willem Duyvendak, Leonard Harris, Bevin Hartnett, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, David Rayside, Rebecca Mae Salokar, and Alan S. Yang.
Mark Blasius is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York (Graduate School and LaGuardia), where he is also a contributor to and beneficiary of the activities of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS). He is the author of Gay and Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic, co-editor of We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics, and is completing a monograph on sexuality and social justice. Mark Blasius has worked to gain recognition of lesbian and gay research and professional status through the American Political Science Association.
