Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
Autor Serena Mayerien Hardback – 8 iul 2025
The United States is unusual among wealthy western nations in the degree to which the law channels public benefits and private economic resources through marriage. This remains so despite seismic changes in American family life in the last several decades. During this period, marriage rates declined while divorce and nonmarital childbearing soared. Social movements for racial and economic justice, women’s and gay rights and liberation, civil liberties and reproductive freedom transformed the legal landscape.
In Marital Privilege, Serena Mayeri tells the stories of partners and parents, activists and lawyers, who challenged the legal primacy of marriage. They made innovative constitutional claims in courts and launched grassroots efforts to change laws and practices that penalized nonmarital relationships. But even though reforms eliminated the most visible discrimination against women, people of color, children born to unmarried parents—and, eventually, gay and lesbian Americans—marriage’s privileged status endured. Because marriage increasingly correlated with education and wealth, marital primacy intensified racial and economic inequality. Marital Privilege explains how, as American law selectively incorporated principles of liberty and equality, the benefits of marriage became increasingly unavailable to those who needed them most.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300279443
ISBN-10: 0300279442
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
ISBN-10: 0300279442
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
Notă biografică
Serena Mayeri is Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is the author of numerous articles and a prize-winning book, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution.