Marriage equality : from outlaws to in-laws /

As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same-sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eskridge, William N., Jr., 1951- (Author), Riano, Christopher R., 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: A family vacation
  • Coming out of the constitutional closet
  • Opening Pandora's box
  • Trojan horses
  • Aloha, same-sex marriage
  • Defense of marriage
  • A place at the table
  • Equality practice
  • The Cinderella moment
  • Cinderella under siege
  • The new Maginot Line
  • The winter of love
  • Latter-day constitutionalists
  • Love makes a family
  • "Restore marriage"
  • 8, the trial
  • Three men in a room
  • Obama's Team Gay
  • Behind the glass
  • The perfect wife
  • Hijacking science
  • Self-determination
  • From outlaws to in-laws
  • The golden rule
  • Families we choose
  • Postscript: And it ends with family
  • Appendix 1: Evolving state rules pertaining to same-sex couples
  • Appendix 2: Gay-friendly laws in the United States, December 2007
  • Appendix 3: Number of state marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships, 2000-2018.