TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rollins,Joe
TI  - Legally straight: sexuality, childhood, and the cultural value of marriage 
T2  - Critical America
SN  - 9781479812585
AV  - KF539 .R65 2018eb
U1  - 346.7301/6809 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Same-sex marriage
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Sex and law
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex
KW  - Children and sex
KW  - Sexualité et droit
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Sociologie juridique
KW  - Mariage
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Homosexuels
KW  - Sexualité
KW  - Enfants et sexualité
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW
KW  - Family Law
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index; Introduction : marital business -- The end of heterosexuality? -- Old as the Book of Genesis -- Children by the carload -- The nearest hippie -- A union unlike any other -- Conclusion : marital jeremiad
N2  - "Legally straight offers a critical reading of the legal debates over lesbian and gay marriage in the United States. The book draws on key judicial opinions to trace how our understanding of heterosexuality and marriage has changed. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the cultural value of marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue: reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the 'procreation argument, ' the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option"--Jacket
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