Bøger af Miriam Smith

Reflections on Ludwig Katzmann for his Great-Grandson Leland Fraser, his namesake. The story of one family's escape from the Nazis and the story of Lou, who emigrated to Newark, NJ and became a refrigerator repair man, raised a family, made a new life.

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.