Queering Marriage Challenging Family Formation in the United States

Name: Queering Marriage Challenging Family Formation in the United States
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ISBN: 9780813562216

ISBN-10: 081356221X

ISBN-13: 9780813562216

Edition: 2013

Authors: Katrina Kimport

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Over four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as some hope, challenges heterosexual privilege or, as others fear, preserves that privilege by assimilating queer couples.In Queering Marriage, Katrina Kimport uses in-depth interviews with participants in the San Francisco weddings to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, she contends, these new legally sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Katrina Kimport is Assistant Professor with ANSIRH, a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco.



Acknowledgments



The Winter of Love



Marrying for the Movement



Marrying for Rights



Marrying for Love



Gender and Parenthood



The Persistent Power of Marriage



Exposing Heteronormativity



Conclusion


Methodological Appendix


Notes


References


Index