The Marrying Kind?
Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement
Mary Bernstein ; Verta Taylor
The Marrying Kind? is the first book to draw 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 the current 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.
Contributors: Ellen Ann Andersen, U of Vermont; Mary C. Burke, U of Vermont; Adam Isaiah Green, U of Toronto; Melanie Heath, McMaster U, Ontario; Kathleen E. Hull, U of Minnesota; Katrina Kimport, U of California, San Francisco; Jeffrey Kosbie; Katie Oliviero, U of Colorado, Boulder; Kristine A. Olsen; Timothy A. Ortyl; Arlene Stein, Rutgers U; Amy L. Stone, Trinity U; Nella Van Dyke, U of California, Merced.
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| ISBN | 9780816681723 |
| Genre | LGBT Studies/Social Sciences |
| Copyright Date | 2013 |
| Publication Date | 16-May-13 |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Editor | Mary Bernstein; Verta Taylor |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Mary Bernstein; Verta Taylor |
| Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
| Subject | Gay Rights – United States; Same-sex Marriage – United States |
| BookID | 8106 |
