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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Dean Hindman |
ISBN: | 9780812250671 0812250672 |
OCLC Number: | 1032287790 |
Description: | 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : The Advocacy Era -- Beyond "Who governs?" : interest group representations in the New Gilded Age -- "Our Sunday best" : homophile citizenship and identity building before Stonewall -- "From the closet if necessary" : the dawn of the Advocacy Era and the circumscription of political participation -- "Promiscuity of the past" : gay advocacy and gay sexuality pre- and post-AIDS -- Acting up in a time of crisis : ACT UP and the limits of an interested citizenry -- Conclusion : An interesting dilemma. |
Series Title: | American governance. |
Responsibility: | Matthew Dean Hindman. |
Abstract:
"In Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens, Matthew Dean Hindman looks at how and why contemporary political advocacy groups have transformed social movements and their participants. Looking to LGBT political movements as an exemplary case study, Hindman explores the advocacy explosion in the United States and its impact on how advocates encourage citizens to understand their role in the political process. He argues that current advocacy groups encourage members of the LGBT community to view themselves as stakeholders in a common struggle for political incorporation. In doing so, however, they often overshadow more imaginative and transformational approaches that could unsettle and challenge straight society and its prevailing political and sexual norms. Advocacy groups carved out a space within a neoliberalizing political process that enabled them to instruct their members, followers, and constituents on serving effectively as industrious political claimants. Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens thus sheds light on grassroots politics as it is practiced in present-day America and offers a compelling and original analysis of the ways in which neoliberalism challenges citizens to participate as consumers and investors in the advocacy marketplace."--Publisher's web-site.
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