Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage

by Joe Rollins

Argues that cultural conceptions of children - and childhood - played a key role in legalizing gay marriage

Legally 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775985
• ISBN13: 9780814775981
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"