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Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States - Softcover

Rayside, David

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9780802086297: Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States
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ISBN 10: 0802086292 ISBN 13: 9780802086297
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2008

Synopsis

No area of public policy and law has seen more change than lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans-gender rights, and none so greatly needs careful comparative analysis. Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions explores the politics of sexual diversity in Canada and the United States by analyzing three contentious areas - relationship recognition, parenting, and schooling. It enters into long-standing debates over Canadian-American contrasts while paying close attention to regional differences.

David Rayside's examination of change over time in the public recognition of sexual minorities is based on his long experience with the analysis of trends, as well as on a wide-ranging search of media, legal, and social science accounts of developments across Canada and the United States. Rayside points to a 'take off' pattern in Canadian policy change on relationship recognition and parenting, but not in schooling. At the same time, he explores the reasons for a 'pioneering' pattern in early gains by American LGBT activists, a surprising number of court wins by American lesbian and gay parents, and changes in American schooling that, while still modest, are more substantial than those instituted by the Canadian system.

Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions is a timely examination of controversial policy areas in North America and a reasoned judgment on the progress of lesbian and gay issues in our time.

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About the Author

David Rayside is a professor in the Department of Political Science and an associate of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of  Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802086292
ISBN 13 
9780802086297
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
440
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