New Releases
-Forthcoming
Series
-Ohio History & Culture
-Akron Series in Poetry
-Ohio Politics
-Law, Politics, & Society
-International History
-Technology & Environ.
-Principia Press
Catalogue
-by Author
-by Title
-by Series
-Order
Submit Manuscript
-Poetry
-International History
-Law, Politics, & Society
-Ohio History & Culture
-Technology & Environ.
About Us
-Staff
|
Sexual Politics The Gay Person in America Today by Shannon Gilreath
163 pp., 6 x 9
Want to discuss this book? Go to the blog.
|
|
|
|
![[Add to cart]](web%20images/aSCadd.gif)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Contemporary and controversial, Shannon Gilreath's Sexual Politics
is an important update to the continuing debate over the place of the
gay person in American law, politics, and religion. Gilreath skillfully
navigates a number of complex issues, including the delicate balance
between sexual privacy and public equality, the entwining of religion
and U.S. law and politics, and gay marriage. He offers astute academic
observations and a depth of personal reflections to create an unmatched
critique of the gay person in American society. Ultimately, Gilreath
argues for the further emergence of a gay and lesbian ethos of public
attentiveness and the practice of "transformative politics,"
encompassing all those activites of the gay and lesbian person.
Conversational and written with a compelling frankness, this book is
vital for the serious legal and political student and the informed lay
reader alike. This
brave and honest book calls gay Americans and Americans generally to
resistance to the injustice of American homophobia that blights our
religion, our politics, and our constitutionalism. Its moving personal
story and compelling analysis call for the importance of a more open
gay voice as an urgent imperative of a personal and political life
based on the values of justice all Americans share.
―David A. J. Richards, Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law, New York University(author: Women, Gays, and the Constitution and The Case for Gay Rights) The perspective Gilreath brings to bear—the horizon from which he speaks—is quite distinctive. Though the literature of gay and lesbian studies is growing exponentially, I am aware of no other book quite like this one: thoughtful, passionate social commentary with elements of a memoir added for good measure. Gilreath’s book should be read by anyone who wants to think about “the gay person in America today.” ―Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Chair in Law, Emory University Gilreath offers a timely retrospective and call for future action in this brilliant and provocative study of gay Americans’ interaction with contemporary politics and culture. He brings an important new voice to the field. ―Bryan H. Wildenthal, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego |
|
|
Shannon Gilreath teaches courses on sexuality to students in Wake Forest University's women's and gender studies program, divinity school, and law school. Professor Gilreath is also assistant director of the school of law's Master of Laws (LL.M.) in American Law program.
|
Member of AAUP
Maintained by WebDiva
The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by The University of Akron.
© 2007
by The University of Akron
The University of Akron is an
Equal Education and Employment
Institution.