Strange Bedfellows: How an Anticipatory Countermovement Brought Same-Sex Marriage into the Public Arena

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 449-473

  Dorf, Michael C ^a   Tarrow, Sidney ^a  

^a MIT Sloan School of Management   (United States)

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EID: 84899970967     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: 17474469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12069     Document Type: Article

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