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Untying the knot
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ISBN: 1282458787 9786612458781 1400832225 9781400832224 9781282458789 9780691126678 0691126674 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Marriage is at the center of one of today's fiercest political debates. Activists argue about how to define it, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. Few, however, ask whether the state should have anything to do with marriage in the first place. In Untying the Knot, Tamara Metz addresses this crucial question, making a powerful argument that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. Rather than defining or conferring marriage, or relying on it to achieve legitimate public welfare goals, the state should create a narrow legal status that supports all intimate caregiving unions. Marriage itself should be bestowed by those best suited to give it the necessary ethical authority--religious groups and other kinds of communities. Divorcing the state from marriage is dictated by nothing less than basic commitments to freedom and equality. Tracing confusions about marriage to tensions at the heart of liberalism, Untying the Knot clarifies today's debates about marriage by identifying and explaining assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices. It shows that, as long as marriage and the state are linked, marriage will be a threat to liberalism and the state will be a threat to marriage. An important and timely rethinking of the relationship between marriage and the state, Untying the Knot will interest political theorists, legal scholars, policymakers, sociologists, and anyone else who cares about the fate of marriage or liberalism.


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Conjugal misconduct : defying marriage law in the twentieth-century United States
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ISBN: 9781107160262 110716026X 9781316613368 1316613364 9781316673096 1108594328 1108645658 131667309X 9781108645652 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as 'trial marriages', racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms. In illuminating the tensions between those who set marriage policies and those who defied them, Kuby offers a fresh account of marriage's contested history, arguing that although marital nonconformists composed only a small minority of the population, their atypical arrangements nonetheless shifted popular understandings of marriage and consistently refashioned the legal parameters of the institution.

America's struggle for same-sex marriage
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ISBN: 0521848563 9780521848565 9780521613033 0521613035 9780511606663 0511606664 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States and examines the political controversies surrounding gay people's quest for access to the civil institution of marriage. The book focuses on the momentous events that began in November 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared unequivocally that the state's conferral of marriage only on opposite-sex couples violated constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under law. The decision both triggered a political backlash of national proportion and prompted officials in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Multnomah County, Sandoval County and New Paltz to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The volume relies on in-depth interviews to provide an insider account of how courts, politicians, and activists maneuver and deal with a cutting-edge social policy issue, as well as real-life narratives about everyday people whom the debate immediately affects.


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Same-sex marriage in the United States
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ISBN: 1442212063 129925229X 1442212055 1442236655 9781442212053 9781442212060 9781299252295 9781442212046 1442212047 9781442236653 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, MD

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Same-sex marriage has become on of the defining social issues in contemporary U.S. politics. State court decisions finding in favor of same-sex relationship equality claims have been central to the issue's ascent from nowhere to near the top of the national political agenda. Same-Sex Marriage in the United States tells the story of the legal and cultural shift, its backlash, and how it has evolved over the past 15 years.


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The rainbow after the storm : marriage equality and social change in the U.S.
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ISBN: 0197600433 0197600476 0197600468 0197600441 9780197600443 9780197600436 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Marriage equality and the transformation of gay rights are among the most important and also among the least understood social changes in modern times. In Rainbow after the Storm, Michael J. Rosenfeld provides a comprehensive new and compelling analysis of who made these social changes and how. He relies on many different kinds of evidence to explain why marriage equality has achieved success when other progressive American social movements have stalled.


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More than marriage : forming families after marriage equality
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ISBN: 9780520391659 0520391659 9780520391666 0520391667 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"Today, about one-half of all adults are unmarried. Many of them are in other kinds of significant relationships, yet the law offers them few protections. Although a few states have created nonmarital relationship statuses, they fall far short of the kind of comprehensive structures needed to recognize and protect. John Culhane offers a comprehensive approach to satisfying the needs of this vast population of unmarried adults. Using a narrative approach that resulted from in-depth interviews, he gives voice to the many couples inadequately served by existing law. Their stories provide living evidence of the need for the law to extend its reach to those who are inadequately protected-or not protected at all"--


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From the closet to the altar : courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage
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ISBN: 9780199360451 9780199922109 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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