Lee Sherman Dreyfus

A professor of speech and communications, Dreyfus is best known for resigning from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (and resigning as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point) to run for the governor's seat. He won. A Republican, Dreyfus was famous for jabbing at liberals in the state capital: "Madison is 30 square miles surrounded by reality," he once said. But he knew politics wasn't black and white, and surprised his party by being the first governor to sign a gay rights law. The 1982 measure made discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal. He explained that the law fit well into his understanding of his party: "It is a fundamental tenet of the Republican Party that government ought not intrude in the private lives of individuals where no state purpose is served, and there is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love." Dreyfus chose not to run for reelection, preferring to go back into private life. He died at home on January 2 after suffering heart and lung problems. He was 81. From This is True for 30 December 2007 Suggestions for further reading: Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson Amazon Price: $28.35 Customer Review: My hope is that everyone in America can read this book. It is an essential piece of work that describes and explains the covert isms of our time. If everyone were to read this book and discuss it, we would have a much more egalitarian aociety.   The Gendered Society by Michael S. Kimmel Amazon Price: $49.45 Customer Review: I read this book for a class that I took online at my university. It's a very well-written book (very interesting to read) that provides all sorts of useful information (hence the 3 stars). However, Kimmel makes his opinions very clear and presents...   Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology by Margaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill Collins Amazon Price: $92.95 Customer Review: I needed this book for a course in my MSW program, but found it to be very enlightening, and a great reference source in practice.   The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and... by Tracy Ore Amazon Price: $62.02 Customer Review: Typical social-psychology theme in a collection of various essays which trumpet that the white man is responsible for anyone's economic misfortune. Essays are mostly dated 10-15 years old. Don't blame the book seller. Good tr...   The Politics of the Veil (The Public Square) by Joan Wallach Scott Amazon Price: $22.36 Customer Review: Joan W. Scott's book on the headscarf controversies (*affaires des foulards*) in France over the past two decades is one of the best works of social theory that I have read in recent years. In clear, accessible prose, Scott lays out an incisive analy...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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