Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage /

Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage /

"Legally straight offers a critical reading of the legal debates over lesbian and gay marriage in the United States. The book draws on key judicial opinions to trace how our understanding of heterosexuality and marriage has changed. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the cultural value of m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rollins, Joe, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Sex and law > United States.
Sociological jurisprudence > United States.
Marriage > Social aspects.
Same-sex marriage > Social aspects.
Sex > Social aspects.
Children and sex.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage.
Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation.
Sex and law.
Sociological jurisprudence.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : marital business
  • The end of heterosexuality?
  • Old as the Book of Genesis
  • Children by the carload
  • The nearest hippie
  • A union unlike any other
  • Conclusion : marital jeremiad.