...Ann duCille This critical commentary presents short essays by three major scholars of sociology, law, critical race theory, and feminist studies—Patricia J. Williams, Mignon Moore, and Kendall Thomas—responding to and engaging with Katherine Franke’s 2015 monograph Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage...

...Kendall Thomas “Is Black Marriage Queer?” examines what Katherine Franke calls the “queer pairing” of the experiences of formerly enslaved black people and formerly criminalized gay men and lesbians that is at the center of her monograph Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality. While the book...

...Patricia J. Williams This essay responds to the “perils” of Katherine Franke’s subtitle by examining some of the ways in which the conventionalism of wedlock made it a fraught marker of morality and citizenship for her comparison group, the newly emancipated black men and women who sought its...

...Mignon R. Moore In Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality , Katherine Franke asks what kind of freedom and what kind of equality the capacity to marry mobilizes. She explores this question comparatively through, on the one hand, the case of African Americans after slavery and, on the other, the...

... three critical commentaries written in response to Katherine Franke’s book Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality . Even now, well into the twenty-first century, debates continue to rage over the status of the marriage contract and condition within African American communities. The union of Barack...

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... of early African Americans, both free and enslaved. Other recent studies of slavery and marriage—including most notably Hunter’s historical monograph, Bound in Wedlock , and Katherine Franke’s comparative analysis of black and gay struggles for marriage rights, Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage...

...˘acıog˘lu about what she called the “tradition effect.” I met Dicle soon after I moved to Columbia University. She was a fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, which I codirected at the time with Katherine Franke and Kendall...

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... sexually compatible. Much better to know this before you begin a sexual relationship!” Some of the language emphasizing the “fun and interesting” aspects of frank sexual conversations is cited across multiple college websites and is directly attributed to Consent is Sexy, making visible both that...

... along. Leo Bersani exemplifies this approach to MacKinnon’s work. 4 See, for example, Adams; Brown; Butler; Cornell; Franke; Halley; Marasco; Rubin; and Walters for their insightful and critical readings of MacKinnon. 5 This is something the contemporary #MeToo movement is also invested in...

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