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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

Presents oral histories of how same-sex-marriage bans impacted gay couples and their children, and how courts rescued those families.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; 2. State judicial interpretations of super-DOMAs; 3. The effects of super-DOMAs on same-sex couples; 4. The effects of super-DOMAs on families with children being raised by same-sex couples; 5. Super-DOMAs and LGBT migration: fight or flight?; 6. How the federal courts rescued same-sex couples and their families; 7. Conclusion.