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Sexual Justice - Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire (Hardcover, Reissue)
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Sexual Justice - Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire (Hardcover, Reissue)
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"Sexual Justice" argues that the achievement of equality for
lesbian and gay citizens is part of the unfinished business of
modern democracy. In Romer v. Evans the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that Colorado's Amendment 2 is unconstitutional because it denies
homosexuals "equal protection of the laws" and makes them
second-class citizens. But lesbian and gay men already suffer
pervasive legal disabilities: half the states define relations
between members of the same sex as a crime; only eight states
protect queer citizens from discrimination in employment, housing,
and public accommodations; no state grants same-sex couples the
rights available to heterosexuals who marry.
"Sexual Justice" develops the full implications of equal
citizenship, defending a robust conception of lesbian and gay
rights that includes civil rights laws that prohibit retaliation
for the exercise of political rights and recognition for queer
relationships and families. Kaplan insists that sexual desire plays
a central role in the pursuit of happiness: individuals must be
free to shape their lives and define their personal identities
through a variety of "voluntary associations." He connects the
marginalization of lesbians and gay men with efforts to maintain
the subordination of women. The argument draws on law, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, history, and literature, focusing especially on
Plato, Thoreau, Freud, Rawls, Arendt, and Foucault.
"Sexual Justice" should be of interest to a general audience
concerned with human rights and social justice as well as to
scholars interested in lesbian, gay and queer studies, philosophy,
political and legal theory, intellectual history, cultural studies
and feminism.
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