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The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire - Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (Hardcover, New)
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The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire - Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (Hardcover, New)
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This book argues that there is an important connection between
ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery
of gay rights. By closely examining the roots of liberal resistance
in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the United States, this
book shows that fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and
womanhood plays an important role in countering imperialism.
Advocates of feminism and gay rights (in particular, the Bloomsbury
Group in Britain) play an important public function in the
criticism of imperialism because they resist the gender binary's
role in rationalizing sexism and homophobia in both public and
private life. The connection between the rise of gay rights and the
fall of empire illuminates larger questions of the meaning of
democracy and of universal human rights as shared human values that
have appeared since World War II. The book also casts doubt on the
thesis that arguments for gay rights must be extrinsic to
democracy, and that they must reflect Western, as opposed to
African or Asian, values. To the contrary, gay rights arise from
within liberal democracy, and its critics polemically use such
opposition to cover and rationalize their own failures of
democracy.
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