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1 online resource (xi, 416 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : Marital Discord : Understanding the Contested Place of Marriage in the Lesbian and Gay Movement -- Marital Discord. What's the Matter with Newark? : Race, Class, Marriage Politics, and the Limits of Queer Liberalism ; Same-Sex Marriage and Constituent Perceptions of the LGBT Rights Movement ; Beyond Queer vs. LGBT : Discursive Community and Marriage Mobilization in Massachusetts -- Marriage-Equality Opposition. Winning for LGBT Rights Laws, Losing for Same-Sex Marriage : The LGBT Movement and Campaign Tactics ; Yes on Proposition 8 : The Conservative Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage -- Marriage Activism. Mobilization through Marriage : The San Francisco Wedding Protest ; The Long Journey to Marriage : Same-Sex Marriage, Assimilation, and Resistance in the Heartland ; Being Seen through Marriage : Lesbian Wedding Photographs and the Troubling of Heteronormativity -- The Impact of the Marriage-Equality Movement. Normalization, Queer Discourse, and the Marriage-Equality Movement in Vermont ; What Happens When You Get What You Want? : The Relationship between Organizational Identity and Goals in the Movement for Same-Sex Marriage ; Debating Same-Sex Marriage : Lesbian and Gay Spouses Speak to the Literature |
| Summary |
As the fight for same-sex marriage has raged across the United States, and as lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement's political agenda been so controversial within the movement itself. While antigay forces work to restrict marriage to one man and one woman, lesbian and gay activists are passionately arguing about the desirability, viability, and social consequences of same-sex marriage. This book draws on empirical research to examine these debates and how they are affecting marriage equality campaigns. The essays in this volume analyze the rhetoric, strategies, and makeup of the LGBT social movement organizations pushing for same-sex marriage, and address the dire predictions of some LGBT commentators that same-sex marriage will spell the end of queer identity and community. Case studies from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Canada illuminate the complicated politics of same-sex marriage, making clear that disagreements among LGBT activists over whether marriage is conforming or transformative are far too simplistic. Instead, the impact of the marriage equality movement is complex and often contradictory, neither fully assimilationist nor fully oppositional |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Same-sex marriage -- United States
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Gay rights -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Gay rights
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Same-sex marriage
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Gay rights
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bernstein, Mary, editor
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Taylor, Verta A, editor
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| ISBN |
9781452939629 |
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1452939624 |
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