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Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet / William N. Eskridge, Jr.

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This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. The text is split into three parts covering the post-Civil war period to the 1980s, contemporary issues and legal arguments.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Eskridge, William N., Jr., 1951-
Other title:Gay law.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Law and legislation > United States.
Gay people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Lesbians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Gay men > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Gay men > Legal status, laws, etc.
Homosexuality > Law and legislation.
Lesbians > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Masquerade and the law, 1880-1946
  • Kulturkampf and the threatening closet, 1946-1961
  • Coming out and challenging the closet, 1961-1981
  • Hardwick and historiography
  • The sexualized first amendment
  • Multivocal prejudices and homo equality
  • Sexual consent paradoxes
  • Beyond families we choose
  • Religion and homosexuality: equality practice.

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