Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

by Miriam Smith
Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

by Miriam Smith

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Overview

Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in areas such as employment discrimination are still unavailable to many in the United States. This book examines why these similar societies have produced such divergent policy outcomes, focusing on how differences between the political institutions of the U.S. and Canada have shaped the terrain of social movement and counter-movement mobilization. It analyzes cross-national variance in public policies toward lesbians and gay men, especially in the areas of the decriminalization of sodomy, the passage of anti-discrimination laws, and the enactment of measures to recognize same-sex relationships. For political science, sociology, and queer studies alike, this book will prove vital as movements for lesbian and gay rights continue to recast the social landscape in North America and beyond.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135859190
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/18/2008
Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 230
File size: 397 KB

About the Author

Miriam Smith is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995 (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and co-editor with Michael Orsini of Critical Policy Studies (University of British Columbia Press, 2007).

Table of Contents

1. The Comparative Politics of Lesbian and Gay Rights  2. Starting Points, 1969-1980  3. Bowers and the Charter, 1980-1986  4. Discrimination, from Romer to Vriend, 1986-2000  5. The Emergence of Same Sex Marriage, 1991-1999  6. Policy Divergence and Policy Diffusion: Same-Sex Marriage in the 2000s  7. Conclusions: Historical Institutionalism and Lesbian and Gay Rights

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