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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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| 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.