Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law

by David A.J. Richards

Book Overview

In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and growing impact of two of the most important and challenging human rights movements of our time, feminism and gay rights.

Richards argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism that condemned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226712079
• ISBN13: 9780226712079
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"