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Book Reviews IJ BOOK REVIEWS Legalizing Gay Marriage. By Michael Mello. The introductory chapter contextualizes the Philadelphia: Temple University Press, material in two ways. Mello first grounds his 2004; pp. xiv + 337. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 discussion of Vermont in relation to Massa­ paper. chusetts' decision to legalize gay marriage and highlights the differences between gay Michael Mello's Legalizing Gay Marriage marriage and civil unions. Mello also uses reminds us that oftentimes our best scholarly this chapter to complicate our idealized no­ work stems from our own everyday experi­ tions about Vermont's social attitudes. The ences. As a law professor at the University of second chapter succinctly summarizes Baker Vermont, Mello's account of Vermont's in less than twenty pages (the complete de­ cision appears in an appendix). The next long road to civil unions is uniquely in­ formed by his access to local, small-circula­ chapter, "Backlash Against Gays and Lesbi­ tion newspapers and personal interactions ans," chronicles the local reaction to the de­ with the players in this socio-legal drama. cision in newspaper articles, editorials, and letters to the editor. The fourth chapter (and The end result is an accessible analysis of not the longest at 67 pages) recounts, in detail, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

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IJ BOOK REVIEWS Legalizing Gay Marriage. By Michael Mello. The introductory chapter contextualizes the Philadelphia: Temple University Press, material in two ways. Mello first grounds his 2004; pp. xiv + 337. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 discussion of Vermont in relation to Massa­ paper. chusetts' decision to legalize gay marriage and highlights the differences between gay Michael Mello's Legalizing Gay Marriage marriage and civil unions. Mello also uses reminds us that oftentimes our...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2004 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
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2576-8476
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1051-1431
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10.1080/00028533.2004.11821623
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IJ BOOK REVIEWS Legalizing Gay Marriage. By Michael Mello. The introductory chapter contextualizes the Philadelphia: Temple University Press, material in two ways. Mello first grounds his 2004; pp. xiv + 337. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 discussion of Vermont in relation to Massa­ paper. chusetts' decision to legalize gay marriage and highlights the differences between gay Michael Mello's Legalizing Gay Marriage marriage and civil unions. Mello also uses reminds us that oftentimes our best scholarly this chapter to complicate our idealized no­ work stems from our own everyday experi­ tions about Vermont's social attitudes. The ences. As a law professor at the University of second chapter succinctly summarizes Baker Vermont, Mello's account of Vermont's in less than twenty pages (the complete de­ cision appears in an appendix). The next long road to civil unions is uniquely in­ formed by his access to local, small-circula­ chapter, "Backlash Against Gays and Lesbi­ tion newspapers and personal interactions ans," chronicles the local reaction to the de­ with the players in this socio-legal drama. cision in newspaper articles, editorials, and letters to the editor. The fourth chapter (and The end result is an accessible analysis of not the longest at 67 pages) recounts, in detail,

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Argumentation and Advocacy – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2004

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