License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples

Author:   Kimberly D. Richman ,  Kimberly D Richman
Publisher:   New York University Press
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9780814725467


Pages:   271
Publication Date:   30 December 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kimberly D. Richman ,  Kimberly D Richman
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780814725467


ISBN 10:   0814725465
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   30 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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License to Wed is a wonderfully rich, deep, and surprising book that will change your understanding of why gay couples have fought so hard to marry. Others have explored the legal and political battles behind these struggles, but Richman pushes us to deeper ground, where the personal and political meanings of marriage intersect and diverge in unexpected ways. This is a masterful and original work that will require both conservatives and progressives to evaluate the marriage equality movement in new ways. -Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights


This is a carefully researched and skillfully written book which makes important contributions to the literatures on legal consciousness, law and emotion, and same-sex marriage. Richman gives us one of the first detailed descriptions of the experiences and views of same-sex couples who entered legal marriages in the U.S., and her account is both highly readable and intellectually sophisticated. -Kathleen E. Hull, author of Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law Richman's interviews and analysis highlight the multi-layered meanings of marriage - romantic, political, practical, and symbolic - to the gay and lesbian couples who first succeeded (or failed) to secure legal recognition for their unions. An illuminating and moving study. -Stephanie Coontz, author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s License to Wed is a wonderfully rich, deep, and surprising book that will change your understanding of why gay couples have fought so hard to marry. Others have explored the legal and political battles behind these struggles, but Richman pushes us to deeper ground, where the personal and political meanings of marriage intersect and diverge in unexpected ways. This is a masterful and original work that will require both conservatives and progressives to evaluate the marriage equality movement in new ways. -Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights


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Kimberly D. Richman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco.

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