Straightforward (eBook)

How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights

Ian Ayres, Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Autoren)

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2011
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3747-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a columnist for Forbes magazine and radio commentator on Marketplace. He is the coauthor of Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small and Pervasive Prejudice? Non-Traditional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination. Jennifer Gerarda Brown is Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law, and a Visiting Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

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What can straight people do to support gay rights? How much work or sacrifice must allies take on to do their share? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown--law professors, activists, husband and wife--propose practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community. Straightforward advances a thesis that is at once simple and groundbreaking: to make real progress at the central flashpoints of controversy--marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the military, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and religious controversies over homosexuality--straight as well as gay people need to speak up and act for equality. Ayres and Brown take aim at both the hearts and minds of the general public, focusing on strategies that can change the incentives and therefore the behavior of the recalcitrant. The book is peppered with stories about real people and the decisions they have faced at home, in church, at work, in school, and in politics. It is also filled with creative legal and economic strategies for influencing public and corporate decision-making. For example, Ayres and Brown propose the development of a "e;fair employment mark"e; to help companies advertise inclusive employment policies. They also show how a simple pledge to vacation in states that legalize gay marriage can create powerful incentives for legislatures to amend their marriage laws. Engagingly written and sure to spark debate, Straightforward promises to change the way America thinks about--and participates in--the gay rights movement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 12 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abortion • activism • Adoption • Advocacy • Advocacy group • affection • Affirmative Action • African Americans • Alcoholics Anonymous • Ambiguity • Ambiguity (law) • Amendment • annoyance • Application for employment • beneficiary • Birth Control • Bisexuality • boycott • Boy Scouts • Boy Scouts of America • Brown v. Board of Education • business activities • Buyer decision process • cascade effect • Christianity • Church Service • civil marriage • civil union • Clergy • Coming out • Committee • Consequentialism • Constitutionality • consumer • consumer choice • Corporate Law • Cumulative voting • Curriculum • de facto • Defense of Marriage Act • deference • de jure • Demography • Demonstration effect • Desegregation busing • Diocese • disadvantage • Discrimination • Disparate treatment • domestic partnership • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • Eagle Forum • elitism • Employee benefit • Employment • employment discrimination • Employment Non-Discrimination Act • ethical solipsism • Exclusion • Fish or cut bait • Fraud • gay-friendly • Gender Binary • Gender Role • Gym • Harold O. Levy • Heteronormativity • Heterosexism • heterosexuality • Homophobia • Homosexuality • Human Rights Campaign • Human Sexual Activity • incrementalism • Institution • insurance • Intention (criminal law) • interracial marriage • James Dale (activist) • John F. Kennedy • Kenji Yoshino • lambda legal • Legalization • Legislation • Legislator • Lesbian • LGBT • LGBT Community • LGBT organizations • LGBT rights by country or territory • license • marriage • Marriage Law • Michael Klare • Military Service • minority group • misappropriation • Misrepresentation • Nationality • New York State School Boards Association • One Million Signatures • openness • Opportunism • Oppression • organization • parenting • Per capita • percentage • pink triangle • plausible deniability • political structure • Politician • Politics • Prejudice • Principle • Privilege (social inequality) • progressivism • Pro rata • public accommodations • Public Policy • Quantity • racial integration • Racism • Recommendation (European Union) • Recruitment • Red Tape • Referendum • Renunciation • Requirement • Richard Posner • Same-Sex Marriage • same-sex relationship • Scholarship • school district • Scissors • Scouting • Sexism • Sexual Minority • Sexual orientation • Sexual Tension • Sharing • Social Environment • Social Policy • social stigma • Solomon Amendment • spouse • State supreme court • Statute • Straight ally • Suggestion • Supply Chain • Supporter • Task Force • The New York Times Magazine • The Other Hand • Thought experiment • Tort • Tourism • Transgender • Transgender sexuality • union army • Unit cohesion • United States Colored Troops • Woman • Woodbury High School (Minnesota) • World View • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3747-2 / 1400837472
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3747-2 / 9781400837472