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Association: Name: NCA 94th Annual Convention URL: http://www.natcom.org
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Harris, Leslie. "Listening to History Speak: Interpreting Family and State from the Nineteenth Century to the Contemporary Gay Marriage Debate" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA, Nov 20, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-10-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p260120_index.html>

Harris, L. J. , 2008-11-20 "Listening to History Speak: Interpreting Family and State from the Nineteenth Century to the Contemporary Gay Marriage Debate" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-10-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p260120_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: When we take history seriously, we can often hear the past speaking in the rhetoric of the present. A careful analysis of historical rhetorical practices enables both a deeper and broader understanding of some of the core interpretive debates of today. One such interpretive debate is the current conflict over gay marriage where the relationship between state and family is under negotiation. Participants in the gay marriage debate seem to fail to realize that the relationship between state and family has deep historical roots in the United States, and a fundamental shift in this relationship occurred at the end of the nineteenth century when, with the dismantling of the principles of coverture, understandings of family began to shift, and this relationship between state and family continues to have significance on American public policy. In this essay, I will argue that for much of the nineteenth century the relationship between state and family was described metaphorically as the family-as-government, but by the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century that metaphor began to reverse to government-as-family. Patterns of thinking exemplified in the government-as-family metaphor continues to have salience, and this history can help us understand the current gay marriage debate.

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