The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship

245 Pages·2011·2.644 MB·English

by  Tremblay, Manon, Paternotte, David, Johnson, Carol (eds.)

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY MOVEMENT
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First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing
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1. Gay liberation movement. 2. Gay rights. I. Paternotte, David. II. Johnson,
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Contents
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Agnès Chetaille
9 Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia: Arrested Development! 135
Baden Offord
10 South Africa: Opportunities Seized in the Post-Apartheid Era 153
Sheila Croucher
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11 Spain: Building Reciprocal Relations between
Lesbian and Gay Organizations and the State 167
Kerman Calvo
12 United Kingdom: Changing Political Opportunity Structures,
Policy Success and Continuing Challenges for Lesbian,
Gay and Bisexual Movements 181
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1 Mary Bernstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her
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Fence: American Migrants in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2009).
Arpita Das is reading Gender Studies at the Central European University in
Budapest, Hungary. She has a degree in Social Work and has worked on violence
against women in India. She has also worked on issues of sexuality, sexual health
and rights in South and Southeast Asia. Her academic interests include gender,
gender-based violence, sexuality and disability.
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Jordi Díez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph,
Canada and author/editor of Political Change and Environmental Policymaking
in Mexico (Routledge), Global Environmental Challenges: Perspectives from
the South (University of Toronto Press) and Canadian and Mexican Security in
the New North America: Challenges and Prospects (McGill-Queen’s University
Press). He is interested in comparative politics, Latin American politics, processes
of democratization, comparative public policy, citizenship studies, environmental
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outcomes in Western democracies. She is currently working on two projects: the
first examines the adoption of same-sex unions policy in Western democracies.
The second examines the spread of corporate social responsibility norms within
transnational markets and analyses their affect on the behaviour of multi-national
enterprises. Kelly has published numerous peer reviewed articles including in
World Politics, International Studies Quarterly and International Studies Review.
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Associate Professor Sarah Maddison is an Australian Research Council Future
Fellow, in the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit, at the University
of New South Wales. She has published widely in the areas of young women
and feminist activism, social movements, non-government organisations and
democracy. Her books include Activist Wisdom (UNSW Press, 2006), Silencing
Dissent (Allen & Unwin, 2007), Black Politics (Allen & Unwin, 2009) and
Beyond White Guilt (Allen & Unwin, 2011). She has also co-authored, with
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scientifique at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His doctoral dissertation was
about the advocacy of same-sex marriage in Belgium, France and Spain, and
his current research deals with lesbian and gay activism in both European and
transnational arenas. He is the author of Revendiquer le ‘mariage gay’: Belgique,
France, Espagne (Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2011) and the co-editor
of Au-delà et en deçà de l’État: Le genre entre dynamiques transnationales et