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Rollins, Joe, Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage, New York University Press: New York, 2018; 208 pp.: ISBN 9780814775981 (cloth), $50 Marriage equality, or the fight to extend marital rights to same-sex couples, represents a significant socio-legal change in the USA. Rollins argues that the procreation argument consists of normative assertions about heterosexuality, gender, reproduction, and marriage. Rollins begins the book by outlining his methodological and theoretical framework, focusing on two key concepts, heterosexuality and childhood, which serve as his basis to explain how marriage became the marker of "good" sex. [Extracted from the article] |
