![]() One reviewer writes, “Anyone interested in gay marriage should read this book – but so should anyone concerned about the stubborn perseverance of racism in America. Franke cleverly points out the complexities of legal sanctioning in a racist, sexist society. She turns to history to compare today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century when they were able to legally marry for the first time. Bush but faced a very different economic and social reality as the mother of three children by the age of twenty-make her the ideal spokeswoman for those who are alarmed by the current political climate.” Random HouseĪlso related to current events and rights at risk is Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality by Katherine Franke. ![]() Her thirty years of work with the organization combined with her personal experience-as a woman who came out of the same West Texas political landscape as George W. “This book will be a wake-up call, describing in jaw-dropping detail the story of what the anti-choice movement is doing to the rights to birth control, abortion, and privacy…there is no one better equipped to write about the insidious, step-by-step chipping away of rights, or about what we can do to fight back, than Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. ![]() Especially timely is The War on Choice, The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights, and How to Fight Back, by Gloria Feldt. ![]()
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