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From the Closet to the Altar
Michael J. Klarman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 bw halftones. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPVH1; LAQG; LNMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it been so strong? Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of the modern gay rights movement with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, Klarman ... Read more
Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it been so strong? Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of the modern gay rights movement with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, Klarman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199360451
SKU
V9780199360451
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About Michael J. Klarman
Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. He is the author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (winner of the Bancroft Prize in History in 2005), Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, and Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement. ... Read more
Reviews for From the Closet to the Altar
While Michael Klarmans detailed history of American legislative change is focused on the issue of gay marriage, the book touches on a cluster of issues that cannot be easily isolated.
Bryan S. Turner, Sociology
Bryan S. Turner, Sociology