The Resource Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage, Joe Rollins
Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage, Joe Rollins
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- Summary
- "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 marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue: reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the 'procreation argument,' the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option"--Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 193 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780814775981
- Label
- Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage
- Title
- Legally straight
- Title remainder
- sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage
- Statement of responsibility
- Joe Rollins
- Subject
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- Marriage -- Social aspects
- Marriage -- Social aspects
- Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
- Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Same-sex marriage -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex and law
- Sex and law -- United States
- Sex and law -- United States
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Sociological jurisprudence -- United States
- United States
- Children and sex
- Children and sex
- Children and sex
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue: reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the 'procreation argument,' the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option"--Book jacket
- Additional physical form
- "Also available as an ebook."
- Cataloging source
- YLS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rollins, Joe
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Critical America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Same-sex marriage
- Sex and law
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Marriage
- Same-sex marriage
- Sex
- Children and sex
- Children and sex
- Marriage
- Same-sex marriage
- Sex and law
- Sex
- Sociological jurisprudence
- United States
- Label
- Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage, Joe Rollins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 193 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814775981
- Lccn
- 2017007944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)974929130
- Label
- Legally straight : sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage, Joe Rollins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 193 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814775981
- Lccn
- 2017007944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)974929130
Subject
- Marriage -- Social aspects
- Marriage -- Social aspects
- Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
- Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Same-sex marriage -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex and law
- Sex and law -- United States
- Sex and law -- United States
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Sociological jurisprudence -- United States
- United States
- Children and sex
- Children and sex
- Children and sex
- History
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