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Paperback Laws Promise, Laws Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion Book

ISBN: 0300065078

ISBN13: 9780300065077

Laws Promise, Laws Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion

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The conservative ""social issues agenda"" promises to use the power of law to effect a cultural counterrevolution that would negate the successes of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement. In this lively and provocative book, ([a constitutional law scholar] for law ads) the author of Belonging to America discusses a wide range of issues-from street crime and pornography to abortion and school prayer-and argues...

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A most intelligent book

Many social science books are propaganda pieces for a particular viewpoint or ideology. Not this one. This one is a calm, cool, and collected analysis of why the conservative social-issue agenda is not a true defense of any family value but an effort to push the political interests of those with an old-time white male evangelical Christian ideal, at the expense of everyone else -- blacks, women, libertarians, Native Americans, Jews, other non-christians, etc. On the other hand, this book is not a textbook, and does require some prior knowledge of U.S. constitutional law. It may be easier to understand to readers with at least a college-level government or constitutional law class.
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