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Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across the Boundaries
Contributor(s): Richards, David A. J. (Author)
ISBN: 1107129109     ISBN-13: 9781107129108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $93.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- History | Social History
Dewey: 303.372
LCCN: 2015024645
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.01" W x 9.37" (1.10 lbs) 270 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Gay
- Sex & Gender - Lesbian
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
 
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This book tells the stories of notable historical figures who, by resisting patriarchal laws condemning adultery, gay and lesbian sex, and sex across the boundaries of religion and race, brought about lasting social and political change. Constitutional scholar David A. J. Richards investigates the lives of leading transgressive artists, social critics, and activists including George Eliot, Benjamin Britten, Christopher Isherwood, Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead. Richards shows how ethical empowerment, motivated by love, allowed these figures to resist the injustices of anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, leading to the constitutional condemnation of these political evils in the United States, Britain, and beyond. Love and law thus grow together, and this book shows how and why. Drawing from developmental psychology (including studies of trauma), political theory, the history of social movements, literature, biography, and law, this book will be a thought-provoking tool for anyone interested in civil rights.