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Gay rights, military wrongs : political perspectives on lesbians and gays in the
military / edited by Craig A. Rimmerman.
p. cm. (Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1049)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8153-2086-8 (hardcover)(alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8153-2580-0 (paperback)
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Michelle M. Benecke is a former Captain and Battery Commander in the United States Army who has counseled gay servicemembers and veterans on their legal rights for the past four years. She has written and spoken extensively on the militarys policy toward lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. She became an authority on how the militarys gay ban disproportionately affects all women, regardless of sexual orientation, via her article Military Women in Nontraditional Job Fields (Harvard Womens Law Journal). She has made numerous public appearances, including testimony before Congressional committees and Department of Defense advisory groups. She was a consultant to the Campaign for Military Service on military and legal issues during the Campaigns recent effort to lift the ban. She is a National Board member of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Alumni/ae Committee of the Harvard Law School Association, Co-Chair of the Military Law Committee for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, and a 1994 Irving R. Kaufman Public Service Fellowship recipient. Her law degree is from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.
David Ari Bianco has an M.A. in history from Stanford University. He teaches gay and lesbian history and politics at the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education in West Hollywood, California.
Francine DAmico is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and Visiting Research Fellow with the project on race/gender/sexuality/class and the military in the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. She and Peter Beckman are coeditors of two anthologies on gender and international relations, Women, Gender, and World Politics: Perspectives, Policies, and Prospects (Berbin & Garvey, 1994 and Women in World Politics: An Introduction (Berbin & Garvey, 1995). She is an officer of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and she obtained her Ph.D. from Cornell Universitys Department of Government in 1989.
Kirstin S. Dodge has written several law journal articles concerning lesbian and gay rights. In addition to the article that was updated for this volume, Ms. Dodge has explored the negative impacts of military exclusion policies on American society and democracy as a whole in Countenancing Corruption: A Civic Republican Case Against Judicial Deference to the Military in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Her article Bashing Back: Gay and Lesbian Street Patrols and the Criminal Justice System appeared in Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Ms. Dodge recently created and taught a seminar on Women and the Law, including lesbian rights, to law students and practitioners at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She currently practices employment law in Seattle, Washington, and specializes in bringing lawsuits challenging sex, race, and disability discrimination in the workplace. Ms. Dodge received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Yale University.
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is Associate Professor of Government, Political Science Department, Cornell University. She is the author/co-author of two books on preferential policies and ethnic politics in India. Her most recent book, co-edited with Carol Meuller, is Womens Movements of the United States and Western Europe (Temple, 1987). She is completing a book on feminism in the U.S. military and American Catholic Church tentatively titled Liberating the Mainstream.
Gary L. Lehring is an Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in political theory, American politics, and gender and politics. He is author of Officially Gay: Politics and the Public Construction of Sexuality (Temple University Press) and a number of articles on lesbian and gay politics.
C. Dixon Osburn worked at the Campaign for Military Service as one of its leading policy/legal analysts. He has counseled servicemembers on their rights under the Reagan policy, the interim policy, and the new Clinton policy. He is Co-Chair of the Military Law Committee for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association and Co-Chair of the Legal Committee for the Military Freedom Project. Osburns policy experience includes analysis of current research on sexuality and choice and the militarys policy on racial segregation. He worked for the Clinton/Gore transition teams Government Operations cluster and has done extensive research into domestic policy issues. While at Georgetown Graduate School of Business, he created and led seminars on sexual orientation in the workplace. He received both his J.D. and M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his A.B. from Stanford University.
Richard Pacelle is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He did his graduate work at Ohio State University. He is the author of Transformation of the Supreme Courts Agenda: From the New Deal to the Reagan Administration (Westview, 1991). He has also done work on political litigation and the use of the courts by politically disadvantaged groups. Professor Pacelles current research is concerned with the notion of issue evolution in the Supreme Court. In that context, he has examined the evolution of First Amendment and abortion rights doctrine.
David M. Rayside is Professor of Political Science and Vice-Principal of University College at the University of Toronto, with an activist as well as an academic interest in gay/lesbian issues. Since the late 1980s, he has published on such topics as anti-discrimination legislation in Ontario, public opinion and gay rights, homophobia in Britain, and AIDS politics in Canada. The article in this volume is part of a book-length manuscript on the entry of gays and lesbians into mainstream politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States to be published by Cornell University Press.
Craig A. Rimmerman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He teaches courses in American politics, environmental and urban policy, democratic theory, and gay and lesbian politics. He spent the 1992-93 academic year as an American Political Science Association congressional fellow in the Washington, D.C., offices of Senator Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-Connecticut). Rimmerman is the author of Presidency by Plebiscite: The Reagan-Bush Era in Institutional Perspective (Westview, 1993) and a number of articles. He is currently working on a book that examines the relationship between democracy, participation, community service, and the New Citizenship in American politics.
