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Wedlocked
The Perils of Marriage Equality
Book • 2015
Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time.
Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves’ involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today’s marriage rights movements.
The book explores how the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous, and how rights—and specifically the right to marriage—can both burden and set individuals free.
Franke also illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has benefited the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women.
Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves’ involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today’s marriage rights movements.
The book explores how the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous, and how rights—and specifically the right to marriage—can both burden and set individuals free.
Franke also illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has benefited the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women.
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Mentioned by Catherine Franke, who wrote it to explain her concerns about marriage equality.
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