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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Dean Hindman |
ISBN: | 9780812296655 0812296656 |
OCLC Number: | 1111898164 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen |
Contents: | Introduction. The Advocacy EraChapter 1. Beyond "Who Governs?": Interest Group Representation in the New Gilded AgeChapter 2. "Our Sunday Best": Homophile Citizenship and Identity Building Before StonewallChapter 3. "From the Closet If Necessary": The Dawn of the Advocacy Era and the Circumscription of Political ParticipationChapter 4. "Promiscuity of the Past": Gay Advocacy and Gay Sexuality Pre- and Post-AIDSChapter 5. Acting Up in a Time of Crisis: ACT UP and the Limits of an Interested CitizenryConclusion. An Interesting DilemmaAppendix. Research Methodology and Archival DataNotesWorks CitedIndexAcknowledgments |
Series Title: | American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law |
Responsibility: | Matthew Dean Hindman. |
Abstract:
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.
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- Gay Studies.
- Gender Studies.
- Human Rights.
- Law.
- Lesbian Studies.
- Political Science.
- Public Policy.
- Queer Studies.