Critical Examination of Martha Nussbaum's Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1996

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Moulton
Keyword(s):  
Gay Rights ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights

Social Movements and Equality Seeking: The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

AbstractThis article examines the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on social movement politics in Canada using the case of the gay liberation movement. Drawing on the comparative social movement literature, the article situates equality seeking as a strategy and meaning game that legitimates new political identities and that is aimed at mobilizing a movement's constituency. The article demonstrates that equality seeking was a strategy and a meaning frame that was deployed in the lesbian and gay rights movement (exemplified by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s) prior to the entrenchment of the Charter. Thus, it concludes that some claims about the Charter's impact on social movement organizing have been exaggerated.

scholarly journals Vriend v. Alberta: Plessy Revisited: Lesbian and Gay Rights in the Province of Alberta

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 892
Author(s):  
Shannon K. O'Byrne ◽  
James F. McGinnis
Keyword(s):  
Gay Rights ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights
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