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One Marriage Under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (Intersections, 16) Paperback – April 16, 2012

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The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as campaigns are waged to “protect” heterosexual marriage in America. Less in the public eye is government legislation that embraces the idea of marriage promotion as a necessary societal good.





In this timely and extensive study of marriage politics, Melanie Heath uncovers broad cultural anxieties that fuel on-the-ground practices to reinforce a boundary of heterosexual marriage, questioning why marriage has become an issue of pervasive national preoccupation and anxiety, and explores the impact of policies that seek to reinstitutionalize heterosexual marriage in American society. From marriage workshops for the general public to relationship classes for welfare recipients to marriage education in high school classrooms, One Marriage Under God documents in meticulous detail the inner workings of ideologies of gender and heterosexuality in the practice of marriage promotion to fortify a concept of “one marriage,” an Anglo-American ideal of Christian, heterosexual monogamy.

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  1. Part of series
    Intersections
  2. Print length
    273 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    April 16, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0814737137
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0814737132
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"Melanie Heath's brilliant ethnography raises crucial questions about our obsession with marriage and, in the process, tells us a great deal about belonging and inequality in America." -- Arlene Stein,author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture

"Nuanced, incisive. . .a compelling piece of scholarship, and a provocative contribution to the public debate about the nature and purpose of marriage." -- Elizabeth Long,author of Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life

"Heaths exemplary scholarship raises critical heterosexual studies to new heights by uncovering the interests and contradictions that underpin the struggle for marriage equality in the U.S." -- Chrys Ingraham,author of White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

"Heath's brilliant ethnography will contribute much to our understanding of marriage and marriage promotion in the United States...her work forces us as scholars to be more critical of how these programs are working and compels us to try harder to develop new ways forward." ― Sex Roles

"Heaths work is ambitious, addressing multiple populations and connecting several large themes, including religion, gender, sexuality, race, and poverty, into a coherent argument about marriage promotion. [] [T]he breadth of Heaths research is remarkable and her insights about marriage promotion astounding." ― Social Forces

"Heath convincingly demonstrates how marriage intensifies racial, cultural, and economic inequality and cultivates a form of individualism that promotes market fundamentalism with religious zeal." ― Sociology of Religion

"One Marriage Under God [is] an illuminating ethnographic study." ― Women's Review of Books

"Recommended [for] graduate students/faculty." ― CHOICE

"Not only is this book engaging as sociology, it is authoritative on the specifics." ― American Journal of Sociology

About the Author

Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. She is author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (New York University Press, 2012) and coauthor of The How To of Qualitative Research (with Janice Aurini and Stephanie Howells, Sage, 2016).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press (April 16, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814737137
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814737132
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
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Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Born and raised in California, she earned a B.A. in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Southern California. She lives in Toronto.

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  • Jennifer Randles
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent ethnographic analysis of marriage promotion policies!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2012
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    As the first ethnographic study of marriage promotion politics, Heath's engagingly written and compellingly argued text offers a cogent analysis of political attempts to reinstitutionalize heterosexual marriage in the United States. It offers readers both a detailed overview of the academic and political debates over marriage promotion, as well as rich, theoretically-informed ethnographic data describing how marriage promotion policies play out on the ground. Heath takes the reader inside the marriage education classroom and highlights the voices of those who participate in government efforts to promote marriage, including policymakers, educators, couples, and individuals on welfare who are targeted by such policy efforts. In doing so, she brilliantly describes how marriage promotion policies and programs operate as a form of boundary work that reinforces the primacy of heterosexual marriage.

    As a sociology professor who specializes in marriage, families, and social inequality, I highly recommend this text to anyone interested in the changing contours of American marriage! It would be a great addition to both undergraduate and graduate sociology courses on marriage, families, gender, sexuality, and qualitative methods.
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  • Orit A Bentovim
    5.0 out of 5 stars An important backdrop to same sex marriage debates
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2012
    Debates about same sex marriage have captured Americans' imagination in recent years. But as Heath's book brilliantly shows, there's an important backdrop to these debates: efforts to promote marriage among heterosexual couples, especially poor and minority couples. DOMA's enactment and implementation across the country has been accompanied by Federal and State marriage promotion programs. Heath spent several months in Oklahoma, where these initiatives first began, and the result is a rich and engaging ethnography of marriage education policies. This is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary marriage, family, and sexuality politics and an excellent resource for sociology classes on marriage and family, gender, political culture, and qualitative methods. I'll be using it next year for my Sociology of Families course.
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