Marriage equality : from outlaws to in-laws
Title:
Marriage equality : from outlaws to in-laws
Author:
Eskridge, William N., Jr., 1951- author.
ISBN:
9780300221817
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Physical Description:
xiv, 1026 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series:
Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
General Note:
"Published with support from the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School."
Contents:
Prelude: A family vacation -- Coming out of the constitutional closet -- Opening Pandora's box -- Trojan horses -- Aloha, same-sex marriage -- Defense of marriage -- A place at the table -- Equality practice -- The Cinderella moment -- Cinderella under siege -- The new Maginot Line -- The winter of love -- Latter-day constitutionalists -- Love makes a family -- "Restore marriage" -- 8, the trial -- Three men in a room -- Obama's Team Gay -- Behind the glass -- The perfect wife -- Hijacking science -- Self-determination -- From outlaws to in-laws -- The golden rule -- Families we choose -- Postscript: And it ends with family -- Appendix 1: Evolving state rules pertaining to same-sex couples -- Appendix 2: Gay-friendly laws in the United States, December 2007 -- Appendix 3: Number of state marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships, 2000-2018.
Abstract:
"As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same-sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America's marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person's ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one-sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality." -- Amazon.com
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