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Looking at Same-sex Marriage Through a Legal Consciousness Lens

License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples. By Kimberly D. Richman. New York, NYU Press, 2014. 250 pp. $39 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-8147-2546-7

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Lannutti, P.J. Looking at Same-sex Marriage Through a Legal Consciousness Lens. Sex Roles 72, 558–559 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0457-1

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