(Source: Yale University Press)
Yale University Press has
published a new book on the history of the marriage equality debate in the United
States.
ABOUT THE BOOK
As a legal scholar who first
argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr.
has been on the front lines of the debate over same-sex marriage for decades.
In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a
panoramic and definitive history of America’s marriage equality debate. The
authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently
administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and
consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the
legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal
stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry
holds in a person’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is
not a triumphalist or one-sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation
wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William N. Eskridge Jr. is
the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
Christopher R. Riano is
the executive director of the Center for Civic Education and a lecturer in
constitutional law and government at Columbia University.
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