Discourse, identity, and social change in the marriage equality debates / Karen Tracy.
2016
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Author
Title
Discourse, identity, and social change in the marriage equality debates / Karen Tracy.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Call Number
KF8870 .T73 2016
ISBN
9780190217969 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0190217960 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780190217976 (ebook)
9780190217983 (online content)
0190217979
0190217987
0190217960 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780190217976 (ebook)
9780190217983 (online content)
0190217979
0190217987
Description
x, 212 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921611410
Summary
"Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. ... The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a "lifestyle" was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
pt. ONE
Discourse in State Supreme Courts
1.
Genre of Oral Argument
19
2.
Naming of Litigants
43
3.
Ideology in Judges' Questions
60
4.
Identity-Work in Judicial Opinions
72
pt. TWO
Discourse in Judicial Committee Hearings
5.
Legislative Hearing Genre
89
6.
Religion, Citizenship, and Identity in US Law-Making
107
7.
Storytelling and Social Change
125
pt. THREE
Comparisons and Conclusions
8.
Morality Arguments in the DOMA Debates
141
9.
Discourse, Law, and Social Change
157
Notes
175
References
193
Index
211