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In this book David A.J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late 18th century constitutionalism, Edmund Burke and James Madison, at a time when two great constitutional experiments were in play, the Constitution of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the U.S. Constitution of 1787.

Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own experience on how the initiation of boys into patriarchy inflicts trauma, leading them to mindlessly ac...

Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own experience on how the initiation of boys into patriarchy inflicts trauma, leading them to mindlessly ac...

This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights.

A timely and eloquent intellectual treatise in defense of gay rights, based on a close examination of constitutional and democratic principles governing fundamental human rights relating to privacy, free speech, and conscience, and presented through the prism of the author's own personal experience as a gay man.

Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism. In Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance, David A.J. Richards examines the lives of five famous men--great leaders and crusaders--who actively resisted violence and presented their causes with more humane alternatives. Richards argues that Winston Churchill, William Lloyd Garrison, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Leo T...

Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism. In Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance, David A.J. Richards examines the lives of five famous men--great leaders and crusaders--who actively resisted violence and presented their causes with more humane alternatives. Richards argues that Winston Churchill, William Lloyd Garrison, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Leo T...

In this remarkable study, David A.J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and growing impact of two of the most challenging human rights movements of our time--feminism and gay rights.

Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama's resistance to originalism.

This book tells the stories of notable historical figures whose resistance of patriarchal laws transformed ethical, political, and legal standards.

David A. J. Richards¿s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly, ¿All The Truth Was Coming Out" examines the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind contemporary conservatism, and President Obamäs present-day appeal as well as the reasons for the reactionary politics against him. This book positions recent American political development in a broad analysis of the...

At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A. J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments embodied a self-conscious rebirth of America's revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Buil...

This book tells the stories of notable historical figures who, by resisting patriarchal laws condemning adultery, gay and lesbian sex, and sex across the boundaries of religion and race, brought about lasting social and political change. Constitutional scholar David A. J. Richards investigates the lives of leading transgressive artists, social critics, and activists including George Eliot, Benjamin Britten, Christopher Isherwood, Bayard Rustin...

What is tragedy? This work argues that it is, at once, art and science -- an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and politica...

What is tragedy? This work argues that it is, at once, art and science -- an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and politica...

This book argues that fundamentalism in both religion and law threatens democratic values, and it discusses how Obama's resistance to originalism arises from his developmental history as a democratic, as opposed to patriarchal, man.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Racial Analogy2. The Gender AnalogyThe Analogy between Race and GenderThe Analogy between Gender and Sexual Orientation3. The Religious AnalogyAnti-Lesbian/Gay InitiativesExclusion from the MilitarySame-Sex Marriage4. Identity and JusticeBibliographyIndex