This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.

Yamin’s research for this book was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.

“Yamin argues that marriage is a political institution to which actors turn either to stave off or to promote change over issues of race, gender, class, or sexuality. In the political struggle over these issues, certain marriages are pushed as necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or prevented.”

University of Pennsylvania Press, 224 pages