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The Lesbian and Gay Movements
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Craig A. Rimmerman
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ASSIMILATION OR LIBERATION?
Throughout their relatively short history, the lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. This new book explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future.
The text also tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement "effectiveness" and how "effective" the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS.
Considerable attention is devoted to how policy elites have responded to the movements' grievances and the response of the Christian Right to the movements' various assimilationist and liberationist strategies ...
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US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Gulliver's Travails
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J. Martin Rochester
The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the
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The European Union
Politics and Policies, Fourth Edition
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John S McCormick
One of the most widely used introductions to the politics and policies of the European Union, and one of the few written specifically for American students, this new edition of John McCormick’s book
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An Introduction to the Modern Middle East
History, Religion, Political Economy, Politics
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David S. Sorenson
Combining essential themes in the discipline of comparative politics with a country-by-country analysis, author David S. Sorenson provides a complete and accessible introduction to the modern Middle
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International Studies
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues
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Stanley W. Toops, Mark Allen Peterson, Sheldon Anderson, Jeanne A.K. Hey
No one social science can adequately provide explanations and solutions for problems that transcend national boundaries, such as international conflict, political and economic development, ethnic
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A Practical Guide to Ethics
Living and Leading with Integrity
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Scott Stroud, Rita Manning
This essential new text is designed for courses in contemporary moral issues, applied ethics, and leadership. Emphasizing personal choice in the study of ethics, the authors take the reader on a
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Rural Communities
Legacy and Change, Third Edition
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Jan L Flora, Cornelia Butler Flora
Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling to survive by implementing innovative approaches to their problems. These people range from miners who have been
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