TY  - BOOK
AU  - Li,Anqi
TI  - Uses of history in the press and in court during California's battle over Proposition 8: casting same-sex marriage as a civil right 
SN  - 9780773411548
AV  - HQ1034.U5 L52 2012
U1  - 346.01/6809794 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lewiston, N.Y.
PB  - Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - California
KW  - Proposition 8 (2008)
KW  - Proposition 8 (California : 2008)
KW  - fast
KW  - Same-sex marriage
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Law reports, digests, etc
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mass media and history
KW  - Homosexuels
KW  - Mariage
KW  - Couverture de presse
KW  - Californie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Recueils, répertoires, etc
KW  - Médias et histoire
KW  - LAW
KW  - Family Law
KW  - Marriage
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology & Social History
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Family & Marriage
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Journalistic and judicial thoughts on history and marriage -- Structure of the study -- Assessment of the texts and themes on marriage equality -- Final thoughts -- Conclusions
N2  - Li sees through the media's white noise on the issue of same sex marriage to discover that opponents of Proposition 8 often made claims about the past to sway public perception. These arguments were based on claims evoking a historical sense of the institution of marriage, but to a certain extent they were untrue. This book attempts to dispel some of the misperceptions around the concept of marriage in a historical context. Li also shows that homosexual and heterosexual couples are not exactly the same, and marriage is differently understood. She goes above and beyond merely explicating how th
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