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Title: Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights by John D'Emilio, William B. Turner, Urvashi Vaid ISBN: 0-312-24375-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring words for trying times
Comment: As a progressive activist, I immensley enjoyed this anthology of movers and shakers in the GLBT movement. Introspective, energetic and visionary, they remind both allies and GLBT people although much has been accomplished, there is no shortage of public policy issues to focus their work on. AIDS, securuty clearances, lesbian feminism and dual identity conflicts of GLBT people of color are issues that will not go away until we deal with them substantively.
While I was famillar with some names... I was introduced to several unsuing heroes and role models. My only regret is that the book tended to gloss over instaces where the movement was not doing as well as it could have been. I believe this would have made some of the anthology more coherent. There are gaps which take away from the individual policy papers.
Even if I understood the National Gay Task Force eventually bevame the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to disadvow sexism, other readers might not be aware of the reason for the name change. More information on the Romer vs. Evans decision (which invalidated Colorado's virulently homophobic Amendment Two), a real victory at a time when the Supreme Court has no shortage of conservatives. The authors simply assume that people know the important bits and pieces that give the riveting stories meaning and importance. Given their backgrounds, this tendency is both troubling and unusual, little is accomplished by preaching to the choir
Still, the format of this book means it can also be used as a college textbook on GLBT issues and theory. Thus it is important to consider the book's above mentioned flaws as a fair description rather than a deliberate pan. Flaws and all, this book is recomended for anybody who wants to know what the "newest" civil rights movement has and is doing to improve American society.
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Title: The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture by John D'Emilio ISBN: 0822330237 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Martin Duberman, City University of New York Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies ISBN: 0814718752 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking by Elizabeth Schneider, Elizabeth M. Schneider ISBN: 0300094116 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Virtual Equality : The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by URVASHI VAID ISBN: 0385472994 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by N. E. H. Hull, Peter Charles Hoffer ISBN: 0700611436 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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