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In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the
last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well
as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community.
With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the
struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad. The
chapters focus on employment discrimination, transgender rights,
marriage equality, and the ongoing battles over discrimination
against same-sex couples and transgender persons in education,
employment, and public accommodations. It also adds a global
perspective by appraising issues affecting LGBT rights in other
parts of the world, discussing claims of discrimination in the
Canadian and South African courts as well as in the European Court
of Human Rights. Mezey provides a succinct and accessible guide to
the debates over sexual orientation and gender identity, evaluating
the roles played by state and federal courts, legislatures, and
chief executives in formulating and implementing LGBT policy.
Suitable as an up-to-date resource for anyone interested in LGBT
rights, Beyond Marriage will also help students in upper-level
classes focusing on judicial politics, public policymaking, family
law, civil rights, gender policy, and minority group politics
understand ways forward for the LGBT community in the political
realm.
Susan Gluck Mezey's newest book, Gay Families and the Courts, is a
compelling examination of the role of the state and federal courts
in furthering the goals of the gay and lesbian community. Unlike
Mezey's earlier book, Queers in Court, this book evaluates the
extent to which litigation is effective in advancing equal rights
for gay families-families in which at least one member is gay-as
they seek to expand their opportunities and battle discrimination.
Mezey shows how the courts address gay and lesbian rights and
sexual orientation in schools and social organizations such as the
Boy Scouts along with family-oriented problems such as marriage and
parenthood. In doing so, Mezey emphasizes the complexity of the
issues involved in the cases, and assesses the degree to which the
outcome of the litigation is explained by the type of case, the
type of court, and the judge's perception of his or her role as a
policymaker. It is a valuable reference for scholars interested in
judicial, legislative, and executive policymaking at the federal
and state level as well as anyone interested in LGBT politics.
Susan Gluck Mezey's newest book, Gay Families and the Courts, is a
compelling examination of the role of the state and federal courts
in furthering the goals of the gay and lesbian community. Unlike
Mezey's earlier book, Queers in Court, this book evaluates the
extent to which litigation is effective in advancing equal rights
for gay families_families in which at least one member is gay_as
they seek to expand their opportunities and battle discrimination.
Mezey shows how the courts address gay and lesbian rights and
sexual orientation in schools and social organizations such as the
Boy Scouts along with family-oriented problems such as marriage and
parenthood. In doing so, Mezey emphasizes the complexity of the
issues involved in the cases, and assesses the degree to which the
outcome of the litigation is explained by the type of case, the
type of court, and the judge's perception of his or her role as a
policymaker. It is a valuable reference for scholars interested in
judicial, legislative, and executive policymaking at the federal
and state level as well as anyone interested in LGBT politics.
In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary
battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the
evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to
military service and employment discrimination. By combining
analyses of nearly three hundred cases from both federal and state
courts with detailed explorations of the paths these issues have
taken through legislative and executive bodies, she provides the
most comprehensive analysis of queer rights in law and policy to
date. Both scholars seeking a case study in minority rights and
those looking for a primer in gay and lesbian politics will find
Mezey's book of interest.
In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary
battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the
evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to
military service and employment discrimination. By combining
analyses of nearly three hundred cases from both federal and state
courts with detailed explorations of the paths these issues have
taken through legislative and executive bodies, she provides the
most comprehensive analysis of queer rights in law and policy to
date. Both scholars seeking a case study in minority rights and
those looking for a primer in gay and lesbian politics will find
Mezey's book of interest.
This book examines the transgender community's struggle for
equality over the last decade, comparing the Obama and Trump
administrations' stance on transgender rights policies. Transgender
rights claims have assumed an important place on the nation's
policymaking agenda as society has increasingly become aware that
transgender individuals are subject to discrimination because they
do not conform to the norms of the gender identity they were
assigned at birth. With Congress virtually absent from the
policymaking process, the executive branch and the federal courts
have been chiefly responsible for determining the parameters of
transgender rights policies. The study contrasts the Obama
administration's efforts to expand equal rights for the transgender
community, especially in employment, education, and military
service, with the Trump administration's determination to rescind
the Obama-era initiatives. In their efforts to do so, Trump
administration officials have urged the courts to reverse decisions
extending the benefit of civil rights laws and constitutional
guarantees to the transgender community, arguing that gender
identity is outside the scope of these protections. Although most
federal courts have been inclined to accept the Obama
administration's perspective on transgender rights, ultimately,
this will be a matter for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide. The
book is appropriate for students, scholars, and interested general
readers.
This book examines the transgender community's struggle for
equality over the last decade, comparing the Obama and Trump
administrations' stance on transgender rights policies. Transgender
rights claims have assumed an important place on the nation's
policymaking agenda as society has increasingly become aware that
transgender individuals are subject to discrimination because they
do not conform to the norms of the gender identity they were
assigned at birth. With Congress virtually absent from the
policymaking process, the executive branch and the federal courts
have been chiefly responsible for determining the parameters of
transgender rights policies. The study contrasts the Obama
administration's efforts to expand equal rights for the transgender
community, especially in employment, education, and military
service, with the Trump administration's determination to rescind
the Obama-era initiatives. In their efforts to do so, Trump
administration officials have urged the courts to reverse decisions
extending the benefit of civil rights laws and constitutional
guarantees to the transgender community, arguing that gender
identity is outside the scope of these protections. Although most
federal courts have been inclined to accept the Obama
administration's perspective on transgender rights, ultimately,
this will be a matter for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide. The
book is appropriate for students, scholars, and interested general
readers.
In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the
last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well
as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community.
With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the
struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad. The
chapters focus on employment discrimination, transgender rights,
marriage equality, and the ongoing battles over discrimination
against same-sex couples and transgender persons in education,
employment, and public accommodations. It also adds a global
perspective by appraising issues affecting LGBT rights in other
parts of the world, discussing claims of discrimination in the
Canadian and South African courts as well as in the European Court
of Human Rights. Mezey provides a succinct and accessible guide to
the debates over sexual orientation and gender identity, evaluating
the roles played by state and federal courts, legislatures, and
chief executives in formulating and implementing LGBT policy.
Suitable as an up-to-date resource for anyone interested in LGBT
rights, Beyond Marriage will also help students in upper-level
classes focusing on judicial politics, public policymaking, family
law, civil rights, gender policy, and minority group politics
understand ways forward for the LGBT community in the political
realm.
Focusing on a class action lawsuit against the Illinois child
welfare system (B. H. v. Johnson), "Pitiful Plaintiffs" examines
the role of the federal courts in the child welfare policymaking
process and the extent to which litigation can achieve the goal of
reforming child welfare systems.
Beginning in the 1970s, children's advocates asked the federal
courts to intervene in the child welfare policymaking process.
Their weapons were, for the most part, class action suits that
sought widespread reform of child welfare systems. This book is
about the tens of thousands of abused and neglected children in the
United States who enlisted the help of the federal courts to compel
state and local governments to fulfill their obligations to them.
Based on a variety of sources, the core of the research consists of
in-depth, open-ended interviews with individuals involved in the
Illinois child welfare system, particularly those engaged in the
litigation process, including attorneys, public officials, members
of children's advocacy groups, and federal court judges. The
interviews were supplemented with information from legal documents,
government reports and publications, national and local news
reports, and scholarly writings. Despite the proliferation of child
welfare lawsuits and the increasingly important role of the federal
judiciary in child welfare policymaking, structural reform
litigation against child welfare systems has received scant
scholarly attention from a political science or public policy
perspective. Mezey's comprehensive study will be of interest to
political scientists and public policy analysts, as well as anyone
involved in social justice and child welfare.
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