Why Love Leads to Justice - Love Across the Boundaries

Informationen zum Autor David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal law. He is the author of nineteen books, including recently The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009), Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law (2010), and The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire (2013). Klappentext This book tells the stories of notable historical figures whose resistance of patriarchal laws transformed ethical, political, and legal standards. Zusammenfassung This book tells the stories of historical figures who resisted patriarchal laws around adultery and gay and lesbian sex. Studies of George Eliot! Benjamin Britten! Eleanor Roosevelt! and James Baldwin among others illustrate the power of marginal voices in promoting political and ethical advances in the United States and abroad. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: love resists injustice; 1. Breaking the love laws as resistance; 2. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: love and resistance; 3. Christopher Isherwood's struggle for a resistant voice; 4. Wystan Auden on the anxiety of manhood; 5. Bayard Rustin on nonviolence; 6. James Baldwin on love and voice; 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict on resisting patriarchy; Conclusion: moral injury and love: why love leads to justice.

Product details

• Authors: David A. J. Richards, Richards David A. J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781107129108
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12910-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law