In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies that it discharges servicemembers not for who they are, but for what they do. It insinuates that, as long as military personnel keep quiet about their homosexual orientation and desist from "homosexual conduct," no one will try to pry them out of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822323176
ISBN13:9780822323174
Release Date:April 1999
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"
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A brilliant analysis of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Halley not only carefully dissects the military's current policy toward gay and lesbian members, revealing its legal shortcomings and moral hollowness, she takes prominent public figures to task for supporting such a policy. The book is short, the argument dense, her conclusions inescapable. A necessary book.
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