Are We 'Persons' Yet? : Law and Sexuality in Canada /
In 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Full life," human rights, and sexuality
- Chart(er)ed rights
- "Demonstrably justifying" discrimination
- Human rights, charter rights, and "legal personality"
- Are we "persons" yet?
- Counting queers
- The high costs of being queer
- The high costs of heterosexuality and the "queer penalty"
- The "benefit" conundrum and the politics of exclusion
- The costs of "incrementalism"
- The future of queer personhood.