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Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality

Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality Paperback - 2005

by George Chauncey

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Showing how the present is shaped by the past, the author of "Gay New York" explains why the campaign for same-sex marriage has become the most explosive issue in the long struggle for gay rights.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Why Marriage? is a tour de force of historical analysis and explanation, essential for anyone eager to understand current political arguments. Los Angeles Times Book Review
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  • Title Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality
  • Author George Chauncey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-12-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780465009589_pod
  • ISBN 9780465009589 / 0465009581
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay rights - United States, Same-sex marriage - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

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THE YEAR STRETCHING from the spring of 2003 to the spring of 2004 was a decisive turning point in the history of lesbians and gay men in the United States.

About the author

George Chauncey is professor of American history at the University of Chicago and the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, which won the distinguished Turner and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award.

He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination at the 1993 trial of Colorado's Amendment Two, which resulted in the Supreme Court's Romer v. Evans decision that antigay rights referenda were unconstitutional, and he was the principal author of the Historians' Amicus Brief, which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas (2003). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives and works in Chicago.

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