America's War on Same-Sex Couples and their Families - Softcover

Pinello, Daniel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107559006 ISBN 13: 9781107559004

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

America's War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families is a legal, political, and social history of constitutional amendments in twenty American states (with 43 percent of the nation's population) that prohibited government recognition of all forms of relationship rights (marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships) for same-sex couples. Based on 175 interviews with gay and lesbian pairs in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, the volume has great human-interest value and chronicles how same-sex couples and their children coped within harsh legal environments. The work ends with a lively explanation of how the federal judiciary rescued these families from their own governments. In addition, the book provides a model of the grassroots circumstances under which harassed minority groups migrate out of oppressive state regimes, together with an estimate of the economic and other costs (to the refugees and their governments) of the flight from persecution.

About this title

Book Description:

This is an oral history of bans against relationship rights for same-sex couples. It is aimed at American government and politics, gender studies, law and society, and sociology. The book can be assigned in both introductory and upper-division courses on the legal, political, and social issues in the same-sex marriage saga.

About the Author:

Daniel R. Pinello is a professor of political science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York and was educated at Williams College, Massachusetts (BA), New York University (JD), and Yale University, Connecticut (PhD). His scholarship includes America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage (2006), Gay Rights and American Law (2003), 'Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-Analysis', Justice System Journal (1999), and The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State-Supreme-Court Policy: Innovation, Reaction, and Atrophy (1995).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107559006
• ISBN 13: 9781107559004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346