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Valuing All Families under the Law

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An edition of Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage (2007)

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Valuing All Families under the Law

1 edition
  • 3 Want to read

Nancy D. PolikoffBeyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the LawPart of the Queer Ideas series, edited by Michael BronskiA persuasive argument for why married couples, gay or straight, should not receive special rights denied to other familiesThe problem with American law, Nancy Polikoff asserts, is that marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don’t. A woman married to a man for nine months is entitled to Social Security survivor’s benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she isn’t married is left without government support.Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage grapples with a pressing topic — the fight for marriage equality — but significantly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger social and political issues of marriage and family law. Polikoff reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage should not bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships — including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. These relationships, like marriage, are about building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence and nurturing the next generation. In Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

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Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
256

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2008, Beacon Press
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Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
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2007, Beacon Press
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Library of Congress
KF538 .P65 2008, KF538.P65 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Weight
15.2 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL11292779M
Internet Archive
beyondstraightga00nanc
ISBN 10
0807044326
ISBN 13
9780807044322
LCCN
2007021330
OCLC/WorldCat
137222806
Library Thing
4388474
Goodreads
2268572

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