... BOOKS IN BRIEF 273 On Marriage Equality Margot Weiss The Nuptial Deal: Same-­Sex Marriage and Neo-­Liberal Governance Jaye Cee Whitehead Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. x + 205 pp. “Where does the politics of gay marriage lead?” Michael Warner, “Normal and Normaller...

...Karma R. Chávez Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage Conrad Ryan , editor Lewiston, ME : Against Equality Publishing Collective , 2010 . 84 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books in Brief Maybe Midlife, But No Crisis: Queer Theory in its Third Decade...

... to the nation” by the program to show how Drag Race 's unmarked English proficiency requirement unravels the fantasy of an equal opportunity United States. This analysis of language in Drag Race shows how national and transnational inequalities continue to be a drag on narratives of gay progress. © 2015...

... and queer theory has become gender exclusive: homosexuality has come to mean, in common academic usage, male homosexuality; gay history is gay male history; queer sexualities are all-too-often queer male sexualities. Women are not given equal weight to men, and the histories of male and female sexualities...

... of the social order. If the film is obsessed with the number two, it is equally obsessed with all the ways in which this even number can prove to be odd or strange or queer, as exemplified from the beginning by the male strangers coupled by its title. Such is the force of the film’s obsession with the number...

... regions. Based on visits to twenty-two sites, I consider how sex museums and other institutions that display explicitly erotic materials frame same-sex media and objects within Kantian cosmopolitan values of sexual universalism, individualism, and equality (Kant 1957, 2010). Rather than take at face value...

... Castiglia and Reed call “ideality politics”) is mapped onto the present and future, the pull toward the past in these texts is equally palpable, as a structure of feeling as well as a critical method, appearing in the form of retrospective returns, activist legacies, spaces of memory, aesthetic blueprints...

..., and Dean Spade, a trans racial- and- economic- justice–focused activist and scholar who opposes military inclusion advocacy. The conversation examines fundamental debates about the possibilities and limits of legal equality for marginalized and stigmatized groups, drawing on critical race theory, women...

... Liz New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2018 . 252 pp. Queer Activism after Marriage Equality DeFilippis Joseph Nicholas Yarbrough Michael W. Jones Angela , eds. New York : Routledge , 2018 . xvii + 202 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020...

.... Patrick . 2011 . Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Juretić Jasminka ; Jakovčić Ines Udruga LORI 2017 . “ LGBTI Equality in the Workplace .” Zagreb : K-Zona . Kahlina Katja . 2014 . “ Local Histories, European...

...Timothy M. Griffiths Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality . Franke Katherine . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . xi + 275 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Chauncey George . 2004 . Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's...

... Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queen’s University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-­1472989 BOOKS IN BRIEF 419 Marriage Equals Death . . . Seriously Karma R. Chávez Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay...

... University Press, 2006). Scott Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queen’s University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-­1472989 BOOKS IN BRIEF 419 Marriage Equals Death . . . Seriously Karma R. Chávez Against...

... Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queen’s University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-­1472989 BOOKS IN BRIEF 419 Marriage Equals Death . . . Seriously Karma R. Chávez Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay...

... University Press, 2006). Scott Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queen’s University. DOI 10.1215/10642684-­1472989 BOOKS IN BRIEF 419 Marriage Equals Death . . . Seriously Karma R. Chávez Against...

... Multiculturalism .” Social Text , no. 89 : 1 – 24 . Montegary Liz . 2018 . Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, and Center for American Progress...

... of Michigan Press . Butler Judith Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . 2007 . Who Sings the Nation-State? London : Seagull Books . Duggan Lisa . 2003 . The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy . Boston : Beacon . Edelman Lee...

... Marshall Harlan condemned the decision to uphold the legality of segregation laws (as “separate but equal”) in part because African Americans were citizens, unlike the Chinese, whom he referred to as “a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens...

... , Charles . NAACP: A History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1967 . Kluger , Richard . Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black Americans’ Struggle for Equality . New York: Knopf, 1976 . Kobylka...