Wedlocked

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Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Curious Relationship of Marriage to Freedom for African Americans and Sam Sex Couples

Autor: Katherine Franke

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raise...

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Autor

Katherine Franke

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

288

EAN

9781479815746

ISBN

1479815748

Enbook ID

09282067

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

608

Dimensiuni

239 x 165 x 29

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The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time. Maintaining that the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous for newly emancipated people, Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves' involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today's marriage rights movements. While "be careful what you wish for" is a prominent theme, they also teach us how the rights-bearing subject is inevitably shaped by the very rights they bear, often in ways that reinforce racialized gender norms and stereotypes. Franke further illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women. Like same-sex couples today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure. Their experiences teach us the potential and the perils of being subject to legal regulation: rights--and specifically the right to marriage--can both burden and set you free.

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