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What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution

Autor E.J. Graff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2004
In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement

Will same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled throughout history whenever the marriage rules change. But marriage, as E. J. Graff shows in this lively, fascinating tour through the history of marriage in the West, has always been a social battleground, its rules constantly shifting to fit each era and economy. The marriage debates have been especially tumultuous for the past hundred and fifty years-in ways that lead directly to today's debate over whether marriage could mean not just Boy + Girl = Babies, but also Girl + Girl = Love.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807041352
ISBN-10: 0807041351
Pagini: 303
Dimensiuni: 154 x 230 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Beacon Press
Colecția Beacon Press

Notă biografică

E. J. Graff is a journalist and independent scholar whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Nation, The Village Voice, Out, and elsewhere. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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E. J. Graff's What Is Marriage For? is the place to start reading for anyone thinking about the words 'lesbian,' 'gay,' and 'marriage' in the same sentence. It's engaging, it's fun, and it puts the lie to those prophets of gloom and doom who think every push for greater equality-whether it be women's suffrage, reproductive rights, or interracial marriage-signals the end of civilization. --Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry

"A thought-provoking review of the vicissitudes of this ancient institution." -Joseph Glenmullen, Boston Globe

"A font of fascinating information . . . Graff marshals an array of sources and anecdotes dating back to the ancient Hebrews into a narrative that is . . . vivid and accessible." --Anne Kingston, Toronto Globe and Mail

"An enlightening romp through the history of marriage in western Europe and the U.S." -Cassandra West, Chicago Tribune