Nation of Bastards: essays on the end of marriage by Douglas FarrowCall Number: HQ 1034 .C2 N38 2007
Publication Date: 2007
To some, same-sex marriage is evidence that society has finally come of age. To others, it is yesterday's issue, posing no danger to traditional marriage. To still others -- McGill University's Douglas Farrow among them -- it has turned civil society on its ear, creating a new political situation in which several things are no longer clear: Is the state the property of the citizenry? Or are citizens, with their cherished personal associations, including marriage, now the property of the state? Is the family still "the natural and fundamental group unit of society," as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims?