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The Future of Marriage: Queering the Limits of Gender, Sexuality, and Family

The Future of Marriage: Queering the Limits of Gender, Sexuality, and Family

Sumerau, J. E.
Bartholomay, Daniel

Hardcover

Series: Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities

General Gender StudiesGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 7, 2027

ISBN10: 1666950548
ISBN13: 9781666950540
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 7 2027
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing on in-depth interviews with 41 married individuals across diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship structures, this book demonstrates how people both reproduce and resist gender and sexual inequalities embedded in marriage.

Rather than portraying marriage as either wholly oppressive or fully transformed, the book shows that it exists in a state of tension. Individuals rely on marriage for its legal protections and social legitimacy, yet many simultaneously challenge or queer its assumptions about monogamy, gender roles, and sexual identity. Through analyses of legal decision-making, naming practices, nonmonogamy, and LGBTQ+ identities, the book reveals how marriage continues to regulate relationships even as people attempt to reshape it from within.

Ultimately, the book contends that the future of marriage depends not on preserving tradition, but on recognizing and legitimizing diverse forms of intimacy, care, and kinship that extend beyond its conventional boundaries.

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