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Women, Gays, and the Constitution : The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law |
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Based on close study of the abolitionist movement and expanding on the author's previous books on American revolutionary constitutionalism, Women, Gays, and the Constitution offers interpretive analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments and the promise they hold for gay rights and feminism. Richards founds much of his powerfully felt argument on the broad human rights theories espoused by abolitionist feminists like Lucy Stone, Abby Kelly, and Frederick Douglass, whose radical ideas (some of which influenced the poetry and politics of Walt Whitman) were later repudiated by suffragist feminists, who thought it more expedient to challenge one prejudice at a time. They were similarly rejected by temperance activists like Catharine Beecher and Frances Willard, essentially conservative women who had formed a brief, tempestuous alliance with the suffragists in the decades before the First World War. In resurrecting the writings of these sometimes-obscure political figures to help assess recent Supreme Court verdicts and state legislation, Richards makes a convincing case that "we must identify such dissident interpretive traditions, understand how they achieved such better readings of basic American constitutional principles, and carry this tradition forward today in ways that enable us... to achieve less flawed and more principled interpretations of basic constitutional values." --Regina Marler
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