Perfect Union?

Name: Perfect Union?
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage \""is so ordered\"" across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U.S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened without an arguably more important, but already forgotten, shift four years earlier that saw unprecedented movement in public attitudes alongside record amounts of television representation of LGBQ relationships. Situated at this intersection of legislative, attitudinal and representational change, A Perfect Union? presents analyses of popular programmes such as Modern Family, Grey\u2019s Anatomy, The Good Wife, Glee, Desperate Housewives and House in order to tackle crucial ethical questions regarding the impact of heterosexual knowledges on the rendering of same-sex relationships as relatable and \""respectable\"" \u2013 portraits of heteronormativity that reproduce the masculine/feminine bi.