Homosexuality And The Law

Author : Paul Johnson,Robert Vanderbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135055172

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Law, Religion and Homosexuality by Paul Johnson,Robert Vanderbeck Pdf

Law, Religion and Homosexuality is the first book-length study of how religion has shaped, and continues to shape, legislation that regulates the lives of gay men and lesbians . Through a systematic examination of how religious discourse influences the making of law – in the form of official interventions made by faith communities and organizations, as well as by expressions of faith by individual legislators – the authors argue that religion continues to be central to both enabling and restricting the development of sexual orientation equality. Whilst some claim that faith has been marginalized in the legislative processes of contemporary western societies, Johnson and Vanderbeck show the significant impact of religion in a number of substantive legal areas relating to sexual orientation including: same-sex sexual relations, family life, civil partnership and same-sex marriage, equality in employment and the provision of goods and services, hate speech regulation, and education. Law, Religion and Homosexuality demonstrates the dynamic interplay between law and religion in respect of homosexuality and will be of considerable interest to a wide audience of academics, policy makers and stakeholders.

Author : Donald Knutson, J.D.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317940593

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Homosexuality and the Law by Donald Knutson, J.D. Pdf

A fascinating exploration of how the law--as viewed and decided by the courts--often embodies fear and prejudice against homosexuality, and thereby, becomes the instrument for discrimination. This valuable book covers a wide range of subjects, illustrating the extent to which the lives of gay persons are touched by these laws and providing a highly critical examination of the response by the American judicial system to our claims for equal protection under the law. Leading law professors and practicing lawyers address the important legal issues and court decisions relevant to male and female homosexuality--criminal punishment for gay sex acts, employment discrimination, child custody, gay organizational rights, and more.

Author : Chuck Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781576075906

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Homosexuality and the Law by Chuck Stewart Pdf

This reference work provides important information about the role academic research has played in the ever-evolving laws covering homosexuality. A comprehensive overview of homosexuality and the law, this fascinating dictionary opens with a history of the Gay Rights Movement which started in Germany during the l860s with Karl Heinrich Ulrich, the "Grandfather of Gay Liberation," who wrote 12 books including, Researches on the Riddle of Love Between Men. Homosexuals were later herded into Nazi concentration camps, where 50,000 of them died. When the war ended, Allied commanders forced homosexuals to finish their prison sentences. This book has 112 entries on subjects such as absurd sex laws, the Crittendon Report, the Boy Scouts, the l996 Defense of Marriage Act, surgical alterations, discrimination, sodomy, loitering, wills, and more. A nearly 100 page appendix details state and local laws. The book includes a list of advocacy organizations and other references, a table of cases, and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:863232734

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Homosexuality and the Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek McGhee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134535392

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Homosexuality, Law and Resistance by Derek McGhee Pdf

This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, while simultaneously examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal discourses. It is a valuable addition to the literature of the fields of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Law, Politics, Gender Studies and Sexuality.

Author : Patrice Corriveau
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859684

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La Répression des homosexuels au Québec et en France by Patrice Corriveau Pdf

In 2004, the first same-sex couple legally married in Quebec. How did homosexuality – an act that had for centuries been defined as abominable and criminal – come to be sanctioned by law? Judging Homosexuals finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec, places that share a common culture but have diverging legal traditions. In both settings, Patrice Corriveau explores how various groups – family and clergy, doctors and jurists – tried to manage people who were defined in turn as sinners, as criminals, as inverts, and as citizens to be protected by law. By bringing to light the various discourses that have over time supported the control and persecution of individual homoerotic behaviour in France and Quebec, this book makes the case that when it came to managing sexuality, the law helped construct the crime.

Author : Phillip Tahmindjis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134732647

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Sexuality and Human Rights by Phillip Tahmindjis Pdf

Finally—a comparative overview of sexuality and human rights issues and law! Human rights issues exist globally, particularly when they have to do with sexuality. Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview focuses on the controversial issues of human sexuality and the legal challenges that LGBT individuals face. Internationally recognized legal experts thoroughly discuss the status of important human rights laws pertaining to sexuality from around the world. Reviewing the progression from historical foundations and shifting public opinions through the most recent landmark legal cases, this is an essential resource on the present state of human rights laws and sexuality. This unique, up-to-date examination of the legal issues involving LGBT individuals’ rights around the world reviews the latest rulings, such as the adoption of minors by homosexual or bisexual parents, the legal acceptance of marriage between same-sex couples, whether the gender-reassigned can be legally considered their true gender identity, and much, much more. Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview illustrates the journey our worldwide legal systems have traveled, and the path stretching before them, until the destination of equality and acceptance in sexuality may finally be reached. Well-referenced, comprehensive, and yet accessible to the general reader, this book provides a crucial, provocative look at just what basic sexual human rights means in today’s laws. Some of the topics of Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview include: perspectives and objectives to challenge discrimination sexuality and international human rights law sexuality and human rights in Australian law transsexuals issues in European human rights law sexual orientation and gender identity legal issues in North America the present state of sexuality and human rights in European law the Asian legal perspective on sexuality and human rights laws pertaining to sexual identity issues Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview is a vital reference source for law educators, law students, gay rights activists, and law reformers.

Author : Leslie Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134896462

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The Homosexual(ity) of Law by Leslie Moran Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Homosexual Law Reform Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : OCLC:1436090518

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Homosexuality by Homosexual Law Reform Society Pdf

Author : Ruthann Robson
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Gay men
ISBN : UOM:39015058207252

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Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law by Ruthann Robson Pdf

Discusses the legal aspects of homosexuality in such areas as discrimination, education, and health.

Author : Jason Pierceson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781592134014

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Courts Liberalism And Rights by Jason Pierceson Pdf

In the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of courts to affect social change, Jason Pierceson argues that this is possible. He claims that the greatest opportunity for reform via the judiciary exists when a judiciary with broad interpretive powers encounters a political culture that endorses a form of liberalism based on broadly conceived individual rights; not a negative set of rights to be held against the state, but a set of rights that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of every individual.

Author : Harvard Law Review,Harvard Law Review Association
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674802934

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Sexual Orientation and the Law by Harvard Law Review,Harvard Law Review Association Pdf

This book gives an overview of how the laws of the time affect lesbians and gay men in how they go about their lives.

Author : Corinne Lennox,Matthew Waites
Publisher : Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 0957354886

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Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth by Corinne Lennox,Matthew Waites Pdf

"Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78 states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual behaviour, and due to the legal legacies of the British Empire, 42 of these - more than half - are in the Commonwealth of Nations. In recent years many states have seen the emergence of new sexual nationalisms, leading to increased enforcement of colonial sodomy laws against men, new criminalisations of sex between women and discrimination against transgender people. [This book] challenges these developments as the first book to focus on experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and all non-heterosexual people in the Commonwealth. The volume offers the most internationally extensive analysis to date of the global struggle for decriminalisation of same-sex sexual behaviour and relationships."--Abstract, website.

Author : Jens Rydström,Kati Mustola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131700242

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Criminally Queer by Jens Rydström,Kati Mustola Pdf

This book provides a coherent history of criminal law and homosexuality in Scandinavia from 1842 to 1999, a period during which same-sex love was outlawed or subject to severe legal restrictions in the Scandinavian penal codes. This was the case in most countries in Northern Europe, but the book argues that the development in Scandinavia was different, partly determined by the structure of the welfare state. Five experienced scholars of the history of homosexuality describe how same-sex desire has been regulated in their respective countries during the past 160 years. With backgrounds in history, sociology, and gender studies, the contributors represent an interdisciplinary approach. Their contributions present for the first time a comprehensive history of homosexuality in Scandinavia. Among other things, it includes the most extensive study yet written in any language about Iceland's gay and lesbian history. Also for the first time, the book discusses in detail same-sex sexuality between women. Female homosexuality was outlawed in Eastern Scandinavia, but not in the Western parts of this region. It also analyzes the modern tendency to include lesbian women in the criminal aspect of the medicalization of homosexuality and the growing influence of medical discourse on the law. Jens Rydstrm is lecturer in history, particularly gender history, at Stockholm University (Sweden) and the author of Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 18801950. He is currently working on the history of laws on registered partnership in the Nordic countries. Kati Mustola is a research fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Helsinki (Finland). She is currently involved in research on the situation of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in the workplace. She also specializes in Finnish lesbian and gay history. She has edited several books in lesbian and gay studies and for many years was responsible for the teaching of lesbian studies at the Christina Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Author : Didi Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X002531840

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Rights of Passage by Didi Herman Pdf

"Rights of Passage situates the development of lesbian and gay legal equality within a broader political context. The book explores legal arenas as sites of struggle of lesbians and gay men against their New Christian Right opponents while offering an engaging analysis of the relationship between law and social change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved