The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

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Author: Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

ISBN-10: 0472030493

ISBN-13: 9780472030491

Category: Same - sex marriage -> Political aspects -> United States

Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of greatest historical importance.\ "The Limits to Union is a superb book about the complexities of recent political struggles over same-sex marriage. Goldberg-Hiller offers a sophisticated account of egalitarian rights advocacy and the reaction it has generated from established majorities animated by a 'new common sense' of exclusionary sovereign...

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Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Ch. 1A trip to the "alter"1Ch. 2Sovereign rites, civil rights45Ch. 3The status of status77Ch. 4Laboring for rights115Ch. 5Hawaiian wedding song147Ch. 6Global wedding bells181Ch. 7Conclusion - the mourning after221