Social Movements and Equality Seeking
The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6237469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Smith (0000-0001-9587-0129, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-309 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900019806 |
| OpenAlex | W2096034821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on social movement politics in Canada using the case of the gay liberation movement. Drawing on the comparative social movement literature, the article situates equality seeking as a strategy and meaning game that legitimates new political identities and that is aimed at mobilizing a movement's constituency. The article demonstrates that equality seeking was a strategy and a meaning frame that was deployed in the lesbian and gay rights movement (exemplified by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s) prior to the entrenchment of the Charter. Thus, it concludes that some claims about the Charter's impact on social movement organizing have been exaggerated
Aesthetics · Charter · Lesbian · Liberation movement · Meaning (existential · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2022 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |