Miriam Smith is a political scientist who specializes in public policy, public law and LGBT politics. Most recently, she has written on topics such as queering public policy; the queer nonprofit sector in Toronto; intersectionality, neoliberalism and LGBT citizenship at the 'national' and urban levels; the role of social science expertise in LGBT organizing; the impact of legal engagement on LGBT social movement struggles; trans rights in Canadian law and policy; and comparative analysis of LGBT legal change in Canada and the U.S.
She is the author of Lesbian and Gay Right in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995 (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and co-editor with Michael Orsini of Critical Policy Studies (University of British Columbia Press 2007). She is currently working on a new book, Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada, which is forthcoming from Routledge.
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