{"product_id":"legally-straight-joe-rollins-9780814775981","title":"Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that cultural conceptions of children - and childhood - played a key role in legalizing gay marriage \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLegally 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Rollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814775985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814775981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Joe Rollins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136169160959,"sku":"9780814775981","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_adc5658f-cc9d-4f85-94d3-fa1ddd685a73.jpg?v=1770160972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/legally-straight-joe-rollins-9780814775981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}