Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780190217969
- ISBN-100190217960
- Library of Congress Control Number2015036299
- OCLC Control Number921611410
- Better World Books9780190217969
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28592611M
Classifications
- LCCKF8870.T73 2016
- LCCKF8870 .T73 2016
Description
"Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. ... The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a "lifestyle" was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen." -- Publisher's website.
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