Author: Libby Adler File Type: pdf Libby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform objectives that do little to help the lives of the most marginalized members of the LGBT community. **Review Gay Priori is a signal achievement and perhaps the first book to give real legal-theoretical, lawyering, and critical legal studies substance to the debates in the humanities it addresses. Brilliantly executed and tightly argued, Libby Adlers book is a major intervention that may help produce a more economically redistributive LGBT social movement in the United States.--Janet Halley, author of Split Decisions How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism Libby Adler takes a smart, provocative, and fascinating approach to the question of law reform on LGBTQ rights. Proposing to upend the civil rights horizon formulated by the official representatives of the LGBTQ community, Adler makes a rigorous and radical critique of the conventional wisdom about what it means to win gay rights. We desperately need these kinds of sustained and argued challenges to the mainstream gay rights agenda.--Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked The Perils of Marriage Equality Review Gay Priori is a signal achievement and perhaps the first book to give real legal-theoretical, lawyering, and critical legal studies substance to the debates in the humanities it addresses. Brilliantly executed and tightly argued, Libby Adlers book is a major intervention that may help produce a more economically redistributive LGBT social movement in the United States. (Janet Halley, author of Split Decisions How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism) Libby Adler takes a smart, provocative, and fascinating approach to the question of law reform on LGBTQ rights. Proposing to upend the civil rights horizon formulated by the official representatives of the LGBTQ community, Adler makes a rigorous and radical critique of the conventional wisdom about what it means to win gay rights. We desperately need these kinds of sustained and argued challenges to the mainstream gay rights agenda. (Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked The Perils of Marriage Equality)

Author: Flora Fraser File Type: epub In this sumptuous group portrait of the six daughters of Mad King George III, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser takes us into the heart of the British Royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions.Drawing on their extraordinary private correspondence, Fraser gives voice to these handsome, accomplished, extremely well-educated women Princess Royal, the eldest, constantly at odds with her mother home-loving, family-minded Augusta plump Elizabeth, a gifted amateur artist Mary the bland beauty of the family Sophia, emotional and prone to take refuge in illness and Amelia, the most turbulent and tempestuous of all the princesses. Never before has the historical searchlight been turned with such sympathy and acuity on George III and his family.

Author: Matt Hern File Type: pdf If you are an unschooler, this book will be a joyful affirmation ... if you are still a little unclear about the history and philosophy of deschooling, here is a perfect introduction.--Kerlin Richter, Hip Mama Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certificationeverything except how to best help kids develop learning skills. Everywhere All the Time presents an array of historical and contemporary alternatives to traditional schooling, demonstrating that childrens capacity to learn decreases as soon as they enter bureaucratic, institutional facilities.Census data in the United States alone places the number of home-schooled children at five hundred thousand. Trends point toward an increasing skepticism of the ability of public schoolsand private ones, based on similar pedagogyto give kids what they need to be healthy, self-directed life learners. Major themes in this book include childrens self-directed learning, encouraging community-building and participation from parents in the learning process, critical thinking for active engagement and democratic self-governance, and alleviating the negative psychological effects of traditional schooling methods. It also includes the voices and artwork of alternatively schooled children themselves.From Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Illich, and Emma Goldman to John Taylor Gatto, John Holt, and Grace Llewellyn, Matt Hern has compiled an impressive cast of educational pioneers to aid parents, kids, and teachers in the quest for effective learning strategies.Matt Hern lives in Vancouver with his partner and daughters. He directs the Purple Thistle Centre (an alternative-to-school community center), is a founder of Vancouver Car-Free Day, is the author of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day, and lectures widely. His writings have been published on six continents and in many languages.About the AuthorMatt Hern is the editor of Everywhere All the Time A New Deschooling Reader, and the author of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day. He founded Vancouvers Car-Free Day and is currently director of the Purple Thistle Center for alternative education. He lives in Vancover with his partner and daughter, and lectures widely around the globe.

Author: L. Cliffe File Type: pdf This book is a critique not just of government deception, but of democratic political institutions and the way they work. It analyzes justifications and explanations for how and why lying occurs in politics. It examines the implications for democratic practice and documents cases where US and UK governments have allegedly lied to the public, such the Iran-Contra affair, arms trade to Iraq, the war on drugs, and the Northern Ireland security policy. Finally, the book explores what can be done to limit government deception.