From the closet to the altar : courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage /

"Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of the modern gay rights movement with the Ston...

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Autor principal: Klarman, Michael J.
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:Paperback ed.
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245 1 0 |a From the closet to the altar :  |b courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage /  |c Michael J. Klarman. 
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300 |a xxii, 277 p. :  |b il. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 261-266) e índice. 
505 0 |a World War II to Stonewall (1950s and 1960s) -- Stonewall to Bowers (1970s and 1980s) -- Hawaii and the "Defense of Marriage" (1990s) -- Baker (Vermont) and Lawrence (1999-2003) -- Goodridge (Massachusetts) and its backlash (2003-2008) -- The gay marriage Spring (2009) -- Backlash (Again) : Maine and Iowa (2009-2010) -- To the present -- Why backlash? Part 1 : Courts and public opinion -- Why backlash? Part 2 : Politics and federalism -- Looking to the future : the inevitability of gay marriage. 
520 |a "Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of the modern gay rights movement with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, Klarman describes the key legal cases involving gay marriage and the dramatic political backlashes they ignited. He examines the Hawaii Supreme Court's ruling in 1993, which sparked a vast political backlash--with more than 35 states and Congress enacting defense-of-marriage acts--and the Massachusetts decision in Goodridge in 2003, which inspired more than 25 states to adopt constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Klarman traces this same pattern--court victory followed by dramatic backlash--through cases in Vermont, California, and Iowa, taking the story right up to the present ..."--Descripción del editor. 
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650 0 |a Gay couples  |x Legal status, laws, etc.  |z United States  |x History. 
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650 0 |a Civil unions  |x Law and legislation  |z United States. 
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650 7 |a Parejas homosexuales  |x Situación legal  |z Estados Unidos  |x Historia.  |2 UDESA 
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650 7 |a Uniones civiles  |x Legislación  |z Estados Unidos.  |2 UDESA