{"product_id":"the-path-to-gay-rights-9781479850075","title":"The Path to Gay Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victorytransforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally. Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinionthrough sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaderscannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book's narrative is hopefulit's a story of how countless personal interactions and individual changes of heart, not elite opinion or legal mandates, drove one of the most remarkable attitudinal shifts in modern history.\" * Reason *\u003cbr\u003e\"This fine study examines how the change in public opinion took place over the years while looking at the ultimate causes of social change generally...An important addition to the LGBTQ bookshelf.\" * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003e\"Quantitative data backs up the arguments of this serious social science book. It makes a significant contribution to the political science literature on LGBT studies by synthesizing and advancing the empirical arguments on the shift in opinion on gay rights in just a few generations.\" -- Choice\u003cbr\u003e\"Garretson seeks to complicate the mainstream narrative about what has caused the sea change toward the acceptance of the LGBTQ people in the United States...Will be of interest to political scientists and community organizers alike.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"The Path to Gay Rights examines why and how public support for gays and lesbians increased markedly in recent decades. Jeremiah J. Garretson explores the origins of this unusually rapid shift in public opinion, tracing it back to Americans increased contact with gay and lesbian individuals both directly and virtually through TV characters.The book provides a rich and layered account of events, activism, interest group activity, and political campaigns amplified by careful analysis of survey data, online searches, and Congressional votes. It provides invaluable insight into the dynamics of public opinion concerning gays and lesbians and social change more generally.\" -- Leonie Huddy,Co-Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Second Edition\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is certain to be among the most important published this year. Support for gay rights has followed a different trajectory than support for any other minority groups rights, building more slowly but accelerating more steeply.In The Path to Gay Rights, Garretson has compellingly told the story that explains whya remarkable piece of scholarship.\" -- Marc J. Hetherington,Author of Why Washington Won’t Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis\u003cbr\u003e\"Garretson provides a compelling, multi-method account of the role of the gay rights movement, politics, and interpersonal contact in creating this massive shift in public opinion.\" * Social Forces *","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409077739863,"sku":"9781479850075","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479850075.jpg?v=1730505360","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-path-to-gay-rights-9781479850075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}