Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009284400)

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.

Author: Marie-Am?lie George
ISBN-10: 1009284401
ISBN-13: 9781009284400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2024
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.10w x 1.20d