...Amy L. Brandzel Duke University Press 2005 QUEERING CITIZENSHIP? Same-Sex Marriage and the State Amy L. Brandzel Without question, civil marriage enhances the “welfare of the community.” It is a “social institution of the highest importance.” . . . Civil marriage anchors...

...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...

...Margot Weiss The Nuptial Deal: Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance , Whitehead Jaye Cee , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . x + 205 pp . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books in Brief Black Lesbians: Visible, Not Pariahs Jessie Daniels...

...Michael Warner Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 NORMAL AND NORMALLER Beyond Gay Marriage Michael Warner There are no societies which do not regulate sex, and thus all societies create the hope of escaping from such regulations. --Michel...

...Tom Boellstorff Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 THE PERFECT PATH Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Jna 1997 ad for Ciputra Hotels that appeared in the Indonesian national airline’s in-flight magazine, a smiling Balinese dancer...

... the socially produced emotional situations that helped push Cold War-era gay and lesbian people into alliances with heterosexist institutions and values such as marriage. In Bannon's novels, “gay marriage” appears as a kind of representational shorthand for a happy resolution to what I suspect was the common...

...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...

...Clifford Rosky This essay examines how lawyers and judges have framed the question of children's queerness in litigation over same-sex marriage. First, it argues that in United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges , the US Supreme Court invoked the tropes of dignity, injury, and immutability...

...Tom Boellstorff Duke University Press 2007 When Marriage Falls Queer Coincidences in Straight Time Tom Boellstorff I proffer this essay to a specific audience — those, like myself, with a commit- ment to both “queer theory” in some sense of the term and a critique of marriage...

...Heather Love This essay situates Maggie Nelson’s 2015 memoir The Argonauts within the context of the 2015 US Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and contemporary debates about the politics of antinormativity in queer studies. I argue that Nelson’s refusal of the binary of normative...

...Daniel Heath Justice Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied...

..., the major site of struggle over sexuality in the past 150 years. These campaigns situate their critiques of heterosexuality outside conventional heterosexual intimacy and marriage by carving off an allegedly unique and dangerous zone (in public, for money, at the hands of strangers) in which sex...

..., look to make a popular intervention into contemporary spirituality, as well as, by implication, notions of the family, marriage, and sexuality. But whereas in Gibson's film the Passion is all divine death drive—all thanatos—Brown's novel reconceives Jesus's Passion in terms of eros, though on the most...

... of cattle upon marriage) among Zulus in the face of British attempts to control their social and political formations challenged the very heart of the settler project. As British settlers sought to create and define a “modern” sexuality predicated on a heteronormative family unit, polygamy became...

... temporality in relation to recent work on queer temporality. Under both these rubrics, time is an ideological force that regulates sex: for example, the “old maid” is “late” according to a trajectory of normal sexual maturation that must pass through marriage. Moore's Tell Me, Tell Me offers a depathologized...

... recent scholarship that examines marriage, as well as the law/legal infrastructure and language that offer conjugal rights, that is, social, economic, and legal rights, and confers statuses of personhood to those who have access to them. Bride , regardless of the specific gendered status and personhood...

... 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...

...Ellen Lewin What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution E. J. Graff Boston: Beacon, 1999. xv + 303 pp. $25.00 cloth, $15.00 paper The Lesbian Family Life Cycle Suzanne Slater Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 265 pp. $25.00 cloth, $14.95...

...- sex marriage. In a December 14, 2003, opinion piece for the New York Times, for instance, David E. Rosenbaum states that “as a political, legal and social issue, same-sex marriage seems to be now where interracial marriage was about 50 years ago.”3 Likewise, Gail Mathabane asserts in USA Today...

... of not one but two body schemas, Western biomedicine and Chi- nese cosmology. Even within the supposedly homogeneous Western context itself, understudied internal nuances call for close comparative attention, as Thomas J. D. Armbrecht argues with regard to the recent same-­sex marriage and male...