Description
America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States and examines the political controversies surrounding gay people's quest for access to the civil institution of marriage. The book focuses on the momentous events that began in November 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared unequivocally that the state's conferral of marriage only on opposite-sex couples violated constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under law. The decision both triggered a political backlash of national proportion and prompted officials in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Multnomah County, Sandoval County and New Paltz to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The volume relies on in-depth interviews to provide an insider account of how courts, politicians, and activists maneuver and deal with a cutting-edge social policy issue, as well as real-life narratives about everyday people whom the debate immediately affects.
This book chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States.
About the Author
Daniel R. Pinello was educated at Williams College (BA), New York University (JD), and Yale University (PhD, political science). His scholarship includes Gay Rights and American Law (2003), The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State-Supreme-Court Policy: Innovation, Reaction, and Atrophy (1995), and 'Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-Analysis', Justice System Journal (1999). He is a professor of government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York and has also taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of New Orleans, and Yale University.
Reviews
'Pinello excellently documents the trials and tribulations of integrationist politics regarding same-sex marriage but for more radical advocates of sexual change the book will serve to confirm the argument that to be accepted in politics one has to heterosexualize.' Kirsty Alexander, University of Strathclyde
Book Information
ISBN 9780521848565
Author Daniel R. Pinello
Format Hardback
Page Count 230
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 428g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 159mm * 18mm
This book chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States.
About the Author
Daniel R. Pinello was educated at Williams College (BA), New York University (JD), and Yale University (PhD, political science). His scholarship includes Gay Rights and American Law (2003), The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State-Supreme-Court Policy: Innovation, Reaction, and Atrophy (1995), and 'Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-Analysis', Justice System Journal (1999). He is a professor of government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York and has also taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of New Orleans, and Yale University.
Reviews
'Pinello excellently documents the trials and tribulations of integrationist politics regarding same-sex marriage but for more radical advocates of sexual change the book will serve to confirm the argument that to be accepted in politics one has to heterosexualize.' Kirsty Alexander, University of Strathclyde
Book Information
ISBN 9780521848565
Author Daniel R. Pinello
Format Hardback
Page Count 230
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 428g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 159mm * 18mm
