Böcker av Miriam Smith

A Civil Society? surveys the main approaches to the study of group politics in Canada, with a strong comparative perspective.

Using archival material that has largely been ignored, as well as interviews with Canadian activists, Smith investigates the ways in which the Canadian lesbian and gay movement has changed in response to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the US and Canada. This book analyzes cross-national variance in public policies toward lesbians and gay men, especially in the areas of the decriminalization of sodomy.