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...George Chauncey Duke University Press 2008 the public life of history How History Mattered: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States George Chauncey...

...Judith Surkis This essay situates a recent French marriage annulment scandal in the context of debates about Islam, gender, and immigration; the relationship between the secularism of French law and Catholic marriage law; and the history of Muslim law under French colonial rule. Copyright 2010...

... Politics (in press). PC 13.2-03 Fassin 5/3/01 11:16 AM Page 215 Same Sex, Different Politics: “Gay Marriage” Debates in France and the United...

...Sara L. Friedman This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces...

...Pallavi Govindnathan This essay defines the spread of acid attacks in South Asia and other regions, where disputes over land, inheritances, dowries, and declined marriage proposals often arouse greed and jealousy and lead to violence. Acid attacks are profoundly vicious crimes, the more so because...

...Maayan Amir In Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt illustrates the “lesser of two evils” principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers...

..., N.Y.: Barron's. Giti and Anu. 1993 . Inventing tradition: The marriage of Urmila and Leela. In Lotus of another color , edited by Rakesh Ratti. Boston: Alyson. Gölz, Sabine. 1998 . The split scene of reading: Nietzsche/Derrida/Kafka/Bachman . Atlantic Highlands,N.J.: Humanities. Gopinath...

... analysis . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Fassin, Eric. 2001 . Same sex, different politics:“Gay marriage” debates in France and the United States. Public Culture 13 : 215 -23. Fison, Lorimer, and A. W. Howitt. 1991 . Kamilaroi and Kurnai: Group-marriage and relationship...

... connection with the families in this network, I was able to follow the course of her marriage, motherhood, and the untimely death of her husband. As with other life histories I have documented, particularly those I undertook with the purpose...

... political mother/martyr — are made through a strange process of simultaneous “denigration and veneration.” Fulton and Martin, for example, appear to be an iconic pair standing for black respectability, heteronormative marriage, and nuclear family as their son is publicly painted as a marijuana-smoking...

... in Bill Clinton’s debauchery to a victim of his abusive power. But the decade was not just about sexual harassment and date rape, and sexual politics was not just heterosexual politics. Interestingly, the debate about same-sex marriage...

....” The issue’s first research article shifts focus to Taiwan and from war to love, as Sara L. Friedman demonstrates how citizenship is produced through a very different type of civic commitment: the bond of marriage. Friedman examines how marriage is challenged in Taiwan by two different phenomena: growing cross...

... on polygamy, forced marriage, and genital mutilation — ­but they have expanded to cover a wide range of issues. This was the case in 2001 with the sensationalist conflation of prostitution and immigration issues, leading to the repression...

... Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann bride•wealth \ ’brıd-welth \ n Using money to purchase cattle, or even to stand for them in the context of bridewealth exchange, made it possible for marriage to proceed in the southern African countryside despite the collapse...

... in a broader project of public visibility, seen most notably in pride marches. Although civil partnerships became legal in 2004, attempts to introduce same-sex marriage have been rejected four times by the devolved assembly. References AI (Amnesty International) . 1962 . First Annual Report: 1961...

..., but this was part of a broader system of noninterference with other pillars. Marriage patterns in the Netherlands also followed such divisions. This is well expressed in the Dutch proverb, “When you have two beliefs on one pillow, the devil...

... citizen, a celebrated member of the transnational human rights community. In a YouTube interview with Zarghuna Kargar, a BBC journalist and Afghan feminist, Sonita describes forced marriage as a “traditional practice” and goes on to describe the type of femininity that is expected of young women...

... of New York Press. ———. 1999 . Can apologies contribute to peace? An argument for retribution. Anthropology of East Europe Review 17 : 7 -20. ———. 2001 . Caring and to be cared for: Displacing marriage, kinship, gender, and sexuality. In The ethics of kinship: Ethnographic inquiries , edited...

... , Lea. 1981 . “Administering to War Widows in Israel: The Birth of a Social Category,” Social Analysis 9 : 24 -47. Shamgar-Handelman , Lea. 1993 . “Family Sociology in a Small Academic Community: Family Research and Theory in Israel.” Marriage and Family Review 19, in press...

..., and California Identity 161 Marita Sturken The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat 191 Serguei Alex. Oushakine Same Sex, Different Politics: “Gay Marriage” Debates in France and the United States...