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Wedlocked - The Perils of Marriage Equality (Hardcover)
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Wedlocked - The Perils of Marriage Equality (Hardcover)
Series: Sexual Cultures
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Compares today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of
black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string
of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage
equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been
able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and
legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the
ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to
compare today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of
newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when
they were able to legally marry for the first time. Maintaining
that the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and
perilous for newly emancipated people, Katherine Franke relates
stories of former slaves' involvements with marriage and draws
lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today's marriage rights
movements. While "be careful what you wish for" is a prominent
theme, they also teach us how the rights-bearing subject is
inevitably shaped by the very rights they bear, often in ways that
reinforce racialized gender norms and stereotypes. Franke further
illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has
redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while
contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and
the diminishing reproductive rights of women. Like same-sex couples
today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in
status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to
finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure.
Their experiences teach us the potential and the perils of being
subject to legal regulation: rights-and specifically the right to
marriage-can both burden and set you free.
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