LEADER 04742nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910463581203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89908-6 010 $a0-8122-0664-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206647 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065388 035 $a(OCoLC)822017765 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642129 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433824 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10710230 035 $a(PQKB)10487361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441794 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17548 035 $a(DE-B1597)449594 035 $a(OCoLC)855711018 035 $a(OCoLC)979756470 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206647 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441794 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642129 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421158 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065388 100 $a20120123d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican marriage$b[electronic resource] $ea political institution /$fPriscilla Yamin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican governance : politics, policy, and public law 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2333-0 311 $a0-8122-4424-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Marriage as a Political Institution --$tI. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT --$tChapter 1. The "Duties as Well as Privileges of Freedom" --$tChapter 2. "What Constitutes a Valid Marriage?" --$tII. THE LONG CULTURE WARS --$tChapter 3. "Marriage Is One of the Basic Civil Rights of Man" --$tChapter 4. "Marriage Is the Foundation of a Successful Society" --$tChapter 5. "We're in a Battle for the Soul of the Nation" --$tConclusion: "Is There Hope for the American Marriage?" --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage is only the most recent political and public debate over marriage in the United States. What is at stake for those who want to restrict marriage and for those who seek to extend it? Why has the issue become such a national debate? These questions can be answered only by viewing marriage as a political institution as well as a religious and cultural one. In its political dimension, marriage circumscribes both the meaning and the concrete terms of citizenship. Marriage represents communal duty, moral education, and social and civic status. Yet, at the same time, it represents individual choice, contract, liberty, and independence from the state. According to Priscilla Yamin, these opposing but interrelated sets of characteristics generate a tension between a politics of obligations on the one hand and a politics of rights on the other. To analyze this interplay, American Marriage examines the status of ex-slaves at the close of the Civil War, immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, civil rights and women's rights in the 1960's, and welfare recipients and gays and lesbians in the contemporary period. Yamin argues that at moments when extant political and social hierarchies become unstable, political actors turn to marriage either to stave off or to promote political and social changes. Some marriages are pushed as obligatory and necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or presented as dangerous and harmful. Thus political struggles over race, gender, economic inequality, and sexuality have been articulated at key moments through the language of marital obligations and rights. Seen this way, marriage is not outside the political realm but interlocked with it in mutual evolution. 410 0$aAmerican governance. 606 $aMarriage$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMarriage law$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xSocial policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMarriage$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aMarriage law$xHistory. 676 $a306.810973 700 $aYamin$b Priscilla$01048805 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463581203321 996 $aAmerican marriage$92477326 997 $aUNINA