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Uses of history in the press and in court during California's battle over Proposition 8 : casting same-sex marriage as a civil right /
Li sees through the media's white noise on the issue of same sex marriage to discover that opponents of Proposition 8 often made claims about the past to sway public perception. These arguments were based on claims evoking a historical sense of the institution of marriage, but to a certain exte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Li sees through the media's white noise on the issue of same sex marriage to discover that opponents of Proposition 8 often made claims about the past to sway public perception. These arguments were based on claims evoking a historical sense of the institution of marriage, but to a certain extent they were untrue. This book attempts to dispel some of the misperceptions around the concept of marriage in a historical context. Li also shows that homosexual and heterosexual couples are not exactly the same, and marriage is differently understood. She goes above and beyond merely explicating how th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773411548 0773411542 |