Burack Because We Are Human

Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7015-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burack, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Putting the SOGI in Human Rights

1. The US Government and SOGI Human Rights Abroad: The Early Years

2. SOGI Rights Are Human Rights, and Human Rights Are SOGI Rights

3. The US Government and SOGI Human Rights: After Geneva

4. No Human Right to Sodomy: Christian Conservative Opposition to SOGI Human Rights

5. Dispensing Human Rights? Critical Humanists and SOGI Human Rights

Afterword Reflections on SOGI Human Rights and Democracy

Appendix A Barack Obama, Presidential Memorandum
Appendix B Hillary Clinton, Remarks in Recognition of International Human Rights Day
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right and Tough Love: Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right, both also published by SUNY Press.