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.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
385 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Cambridge University Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2024-08-01 |
| ISBN |
9781009284400 |
