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American Marriage - A Political Institution (Paperback)
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American Marriage - A Political Institution (Paperback)
Series: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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As 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
1960s, 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.
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