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The Constitution of Interests - Beyond the Politics of Rights (Hardcover, New)
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The Constitution of Interests - Beyond the Politics of Rights (Hardcover, New)
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Clearly, the structure of authority in this country rests on how
Americans understand the nature and relationship of law and
politics. Law consists of pronouncements from the courts, but also
of what we think of these pronouncements: should abortion be a
choice or is it murder? Law is formed as much through the dynamic
tensions that govern how these laws are received as through their
official decree. Legal forms - contracts, property, rights -
similarly do not reflect pre-existing or natural categories but
themselves constitute social and political life because they
dictate how we conceptualize our world. Even activists who seek
reform inadvertently reinforce the traditional legal remedies
against which they rally, oftentimes relying on legal institutions
while claiming to be free of them. John Brigham's book focuses on
four particular ideological movements and their strategies,
including the emphasis placed by gay men on their rights during the
legal struggle over the closing of gay bathhouses in the early
years of the AIDS crisis and the radical feminist use of rage and
radical consciousness in anti-pornography campaigns. The effect of
law in politics, Brigham convincingly reveals, is constitutive
precisely when political life finds its meaning in various legal
forms.
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