DAVID A.J. RICHARDS
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The Edwin D. Webb professor of law at New York University, David A. J. Richards is an American constitutional lawyer and moral philosopher, who has written more than twenty books that integrate interdisciplinary approaches to law and culture. His work explores the U.S. constitution, patriarchy and democracy, gay rights and gender. See below for a selection of his many books.
Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves: a Memoir
(Bloomington, IND, Xlibris, 2019)
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Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama’s Challenge to Patriarchy’s Threat to Democracy
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Tragic Manhood and Democracy: Verdi’s Voice and the Powers of Musical
(Brighton, UK: Sussex University Press, 2004)
Women, Gays, and the Constitution:
The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Sex, Drugs, Death, and
the Law:
An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization (Totowa, N. J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982)
Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018)
The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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​Free Speech and the Politics of Identity
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999)
Conscience and the Constitution:
History, Theory and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
A Theory of Reasons
for Action
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)
Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama:
“Suddenly, All the Truth Was Coming Out “
(New York, Routledge, 2010)
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Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality and Gender:
A Critique of New Natural Law
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race,
Gender, Religion as Analogies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
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Foundations of American Constitutionalism
(New York: Oxford University Press 1989)
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The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire: Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance
(Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Swallows Press, 2005)
Italian American:
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (New York: New York University Press, 1999)
Toleration and the Constitution New York: Oxford University Press (1986)