Family Matters : Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition Hardback
by Marie-Amelie (Wake Forest University School of Law) George
Part of the Studies in Legal History series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:385 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2024
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- ISBN:9781009284400
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:385 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009284400
