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Title: Book review: Valuing all families
Post by: Shana A on May 06, 2008, 07:09:53 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 06, 2008, 07:09:53 AM
Book review: Valuing all families
Filed by: Alex Blaze
May 5, 2008 6:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/book_review_valuing_all_families.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/book_review_valuing_all_families.php)
Nancy D. Polikoff
Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
Beacon Press, 2008
Law professor Nancy Polikoff argues in Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law that marriage and the rights currently associated with it were developed decades ago in a culture where sex outside marriage was taboo, illegitimate children were outcasts, and gender roles were legally written into marriage.
Filed by: Alex Blaze
May 5, 2008 6:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/book_review_valuing_all_families.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/book_review_valuing_all_families.php)
Nancy D. Polikoff
Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
Beacon Press, 2008
Law professor Nancy Polikoff argues in Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law that marriage and the rights currently associated with it were developed decades ago in a culture where sex outside marriage was taboo, illegitimate children were outcasts, and gender roles were legally written into marriage.