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The marrying kind? : debating same-sex marriage within the lesbian and gay movement  Cover Image Book Book

The marrying kind? : debating same-sex marriage within the lesbian and gay movement / Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor, editors.

Taylor, Verta A. (Added Author). Bernstein, Mary. (Added Author).

Summary:

"As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely debated within the LGBT community. 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 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." -- From publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780816681716 (hc : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0816681716 (hc : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816681723 (pb : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0816681724 (pb : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Marital discord: understanding the contested place of marriage in the lesbian and gay movement / Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor -- What's the matter with Newark? race, class, marriage politics, and the limits of queer liberalism / Arlene Stein -- Same-sex marriage and constituent perceptions of the LGBT rights movement / Kathleen E. Hull and Timothy A. Ortyl -- Beyond queer vs. LGBT: discursive community and marriage mobilization in Massachusetts / Jeffrey Kosbie -- Winning for LGBT rights laws, losing for same-sex marriage: the LGBT movement and campaign tactics / Amy L. Stone -- Yes on Proposition 8: the conservative opposition to same-sex marriage / Katie Oliviero -- Mobilization through marriage: the San Francisco wedding protest / Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Ann Andersen -- The long journey to marriage: same-sex marriage, assimilation, and resistance in the Heartland / Melanie Heath -- Being seen through marriage: lesbian wedding photographs and the troubling of heteronormativity / Katrina Kimport -- Normalization, queer discourse, and the marriage-equality movement in Vermont / Mary Bernstein and Mary C. Burke -- What happens when you get what you want? the relationship between organizational identity and goals in the movement for same-sex marriage / Kristine A. Olsen -- Debating same-sex marriage: lesbian and gay spouses speak to the literature / Adam Isaiah Green.
Subject: Same-sex marriage > United States.
Gay rights > United States.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library HQ 1034 .U5 M37 2013 30775305465644 General Collection Available -


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