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One Marriage Under God - The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (Paperback, New)
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One Marriage Under God - The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (Paperback, New)
Series: Intersections
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The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has
engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States.
While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage
accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these
initiatives have sparked a backlash as campaigns are waged to
"protect" heterosexual marriage in America. Less in the public eye
is government legislation that embraces the idea of marriage
promotion as a necessary societal good. In this timely and
extensive study of marriage politics, Melanie Heath uncovers broad
cultural anxieties that fuel on-the-ground practices to reinforce a
boundary of heterosexual marriage, questioning why marriage has
become an issue of pervasive national preoccupation and anxiety,
and explores the impact of policies that seek to reinstitutionalize
heterosexual marriage in American society. From marriage workshops
for the general public to relationship classes for welfare
recipients to marriage education in high school classrooms, One
Marriage Under God documents in meticulous detail the inner
workings of ideologies of gender and heterosexuality in the
practice of marriage promotion to fortify a concept of "one
marriage," an Anglo-American ideal of Christian, heterosexual
monogamy.
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