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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
wiley   +1 more source

Validity Evidences of the Internalized Homophobia Scale for Brazilian Gays and Lesbians

Psico-USF, 2019
This article gathered evidence of the validity of the Internalized Homophobia Scale (EHI) for Brazilian gays and lesbians. Study 1 found evidence of content validity (performed by two area judges and 10 gay and lesbian people), based on the internal ...
Aline Nogueira de Lira, Normanda Araujo de Morais   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

“It’s made a huge difference” : recognition, rights and the personal significance of Civil Partnership [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we map briefly some of the arguments around the meaning and significance of the introduction of Civil Partnership in England and Wales, and in this way show how contested these meanings are.
Shipman, B., Smart, C.C.
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual orientation and family law [PDF]

, 2001
On 29th March 2000 the Scottish Parliament passed its fifth piece of legislation, the Adults with Incapacities (Scotland) Act 2000. One small provision tucked away in this important legislation amends the definition of "nearest relative" in the Mental ...
Norrie, Kenneth McK.
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Simone de Beauvoir et l’expérience lesbienne vécue

Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2013
In the course of her personal trajectory as well as in her research work on Simone de Beauvoir carried out over many years, the author rereads the chapter "The Lesbian" in The Second Sex, putting into evidence the most explosive aspects of the work, as ...
Meryl Altman
doaj   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

Être ou ne pas être subversives ?

Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2009
The preliminary results of an Internet survey conducted among French Canadian young lesbians indicate, notably, that the majority of the 362 respondents see themselves through the apparatus of sex and sexual difference rather than through the expected de/
Dominique Bourque
doaj   +1 more source

A systematic review of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health in the West Midlands region of the UK compared to published UK research [PDF]

, 2009
It is estimated that approximately 3-8% of the UK population identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT). Until now, most health research on gay and bisexual men has been around HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and for trans people has ...
Bayliss, S, McManus, J, Meads, C, Pennant, M   +3 more
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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
wiley   +1 more source