Law's Promise, Law's Expression

The conservative 'social issues agenda' promises to use the power of law to effect a cultural counterrevolution that would negate the successes of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement. In this lively and provocative book, the author of Belonging to America discusses a wide range of issues-from street crime and pornography to abortion and school prayer-and argues eloquently that most of the social issues agenda violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship.

Preface
Imposing Order: Law and the Origins of the Social Issues Agenda	p. 1
The Promise of Order and the Power of Expression	p. 2
Law, Expression, and the Status of Groups	p. 8
Law and Status Politics in the Theater State	p. 16
The Social Issues and the Symbols of Government	p. 16
The Social Issues and the Nationalization of "Factions"	p. 20
The Social Issues, the Congress, and the President	p. 24
"Family Values": Policing the Gender Line	p. 31
A Deferred Prologue: The Anxieties of Manhood and the Expression of Power	p. 31
Religion, Sex, and Politics	p. 37
Women as Unreason	p. 40
Pornography and Law as Images of Power	p. 43
Maternal Images: Abortion and the Expression of Women's Status	p. 50
The "Family," the Gender Line, and the Expression of Gay Identity	p. 57
Representations of Race	p. 67
Images of Disorder	p. 68
Formal Racial Neutrality in the Politics and Law of Counterrevolution	p. 74
The Primacy of Private Discrimination in Racial Subordination	p. 77
Government, Expression, and the Social Meanings of Race: Labeling and Silencing	p. 85
Government, Expression, and the Social Meanings of Race: The Languages of Liberation and of Hate	p. 90
Enacting the Narratives of Inclusion	p. 103
Race, Gender, and Political Stagecraft: Two Revivals from Recent Seasons	p. 112
The Manliness of War	p. 112
The Morality of the Poor	p. 136
The Cross and the Flag	p. 147
The Politics of Religion and the Symbols of Government	p. 147
"Capture the Flag" as a Political Game	p. 160
Symbols of Authority and Power	p. 165
The Constitution of a Community of Equal Citizens	p. 171
Judicial Review and the Politics of Exclusion	p. 173
The Enduring Principle of Equal Citizenship	p. 187
Living with Pluralization and Its Discontents	p. 202
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 309
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