'Miriam Smith asks crucial questions about the direction taken by Canada's sexual diversity activists, and provides incisive, thought-provoking answers. In the process, she adds significantly to social movement analysis and critical legal studies. She does so in highly readable and engaging ways, firmly grounded in the experience of activists across Canada.' -- David Rayside, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 'Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada stands as the first book-length treatment of the Canadian lesbian and gay rights movement and as an obvious source for those involved in comparative research on social movements and, in particular, gay and lesbian political action.' -- Janine Brodie, Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta 'Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada makes a serious advance in state-of-the-art research in fields of political science and queer and feminist studies. I congratulate Miriam Smith on delivering a trenchant, thoughtful account of how and why the discourse of Canadian gay liberation in the 1970s shifted to "rights talk" in the context of post-Charter litigation. Her focus on the Charter and its effects is both fresh and original.' -- Becki Ross, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia
Miriam Smith is Professor in the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. She is a political scientist who has published widely on LGBTQ politics in Canada and the US, among other topics. She is the author of Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (2008) and Editor of Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada (2014).
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