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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Marital Discord: Understanding the Contested Place of Marriage in the Lesbian and Gay Movement
Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor
Part I. Marital Discord
1. What’s the Matter with Newark?: Race, Class, Marriage Politics, and the Limits of Queer Liberalism
Arlene Stein
2. Same-Sex Marriage and Constituent Perceptions of the LGBT Rights Movement
Kathleen E. Hull and Timothy A. Ortyl
3. Beyond Queer vs. LGBT: Discursive Community and Marriage Mobilization in Massachusetts
Jeffrey Kosbie
Part II. Marriage Equality Opposition
4. Winning for LGBT Rights Laws, Losing for Same-Sex Marriage: The LGBT Movement and Campaign Tactics
Amy L. Stone
5. Yes on Proposition 8: The Conservative Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage
Katie Oliviero
Part III. Marriage Activism
6. Mobilization through Marriage: The San Francisco Wedding Protest
Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Ann Andersen
7. The Long Journey to Marriage: Same-Sex Marriage, Assimilation, and Resistance in the Heartland
Melanie Heath
8. Being Seen through Marriage: Lesbian Wedding Photographs and the Troubling of Heteronormativity
Katrina Kimport
Part IV. The Impact of the Marriage Equality Movement
9. Normalization, Queer Discourse, and the Marriage Equality Movement in Vermont
Mary Bernstein and Mary C. Burke
10. What Happens When You Get What You Want?: The Relationship between Organizational Identity and Goals in the Movement for Same-Sex Marriage
Kristine A. Olsen
11. Debating Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian and Gay Spouses Speak to the Literature
Adam Isaiah Green
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