Family Matters
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-28440-0 (ISBN)
In 1960, consensual sodomy was a crime in every state in America. Fifty-five years later, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the fundamental right to marry. In the span of two generations, American law underwent a dramatic transformation. Though the fight for marriage equality has received a considerable amount of attention from scholars and the media, it was only a small part of the more than half-century struggle for queer family rights. Family Matters uncovers these decades of advocacy, which reshaped the place of same-sex sexuality in American law and society – and ultimately made marriage equality possible. This book, however, is more than a history of queer rights. Marie-Amélie George reveals that national legal change resulted from shifts at the state and local levels, where the central figures were everyday people without legal training. Consequently, she offers a new way of understanding how minority groups were able to secure meaningful legal change.
Marie-Amélie George is a legal scholar and historian whose work focuses on the LGBTQ+ rights movement. She is Associate Professor of Law at Wake Forest University.
Introduction; Part I. Queer Partners and Parents: 1. Legalizing queer life: Alfred Kinsey and criminal law reform; 2. Contesting custody: social science and queer parental rights; 3. Recognizing relationships: corporate and municipal domestic partnership programs during the AIDS crisis; 4. Adopting change: social workers, foster care, and the expansion of the queer family; Part II. Straight Parents, Queer Children: 5. Combatting violence: protecting the queer community on the streets and in the schools; 6. Teaching tolerance: the queer family comes out against hate; Part III. Queer Families: 7. More perfect unions: marriage equality, public opinion, and the queer family; Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Legal History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 690 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-28440-1 / 1009284401 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-28440-0 / 9781009284400 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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