Li, Anqi

Ms. Anqi Li is currently pursuing her J.D. from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law where she hopes to graduate in 2014.

THE USES OF HISTORY IN THE PRESS AND IN COURT DURING CALIFORNIA'S BATTLE OVER PROPOSITION 8:
Casting Same Sex Marriage as a Civil Right

2012 0-7734-2637-X
Li sees through the media’s white noise on the issue of same sex marriage to discover that opponents of Proposition 8 often made claims about the past to sway public perception. These arguments were based on claims evoking a historical sense of the institution of marriage, but to a certain extent they were untrue. This book attempts to dispel some of the misperceptions around the concept of marriage in a historical context. Li also shows that homosexual and heterosexual couples are not exactly the same, and marriage is differently understood. She goes above and beyond merely explicating how the media covered the story, to delve into larger social influences at play in society.