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History Professor Nancy F. Cott testified on Tuesday in a federal case against California's Proposition 8—which currently restricts same-sex marriage within state borders—to provide an overview of the various marriage restrictions in American history...
...plaintiffs’ lawyers called upon Cott, an expert in the history of marriage and a scholar of 20th century gender relations, to the stand on Tuesday. In her testimony, she drew connections between the current restrictions on same-sex marriage and former marriage restrictions, such as the laws that once forbade white women from marrying Chinese men and the infamous miscegenation laws repealed in 1967 that prohibited white women from marrying black...
...Cott responded in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson on Thursday that her point had not been about importance in any absolute sense but rather importance from the perspective of the state with the authority to create marriage rules...
...state, Cott said, is concerned with responsible adults supporting the dependants in their households, and whether the adults are the biological parents of those dependants is less of an issue—which the history of domestic relations law makes clear...
...first poet chosen to be as a Rothschild lecturer, said Nancy F. Cott, director of the Schlesinger Library...