Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and LawCambridge University Press, 16/02/2006 - 277 páginas Fierce and often ugly battles are being waged, especially in the United States, over who is allowed to marry, what marriage signifies, and where marriage is headed. Kathleen Hull examines these debates, and data from interviews with over seventy people in same-sex relationships, to explore the cultural practices surrounding same-sex marriage and the legal battle for recognition. Arguing that the cultural and legal dimensions of marriage are closely intertwined, she shows how same-sex couples use marriage-related cultural practices, such as public commitment rituals, to assert the reality of their commitments despite lack of legal recognition. Though many same-sex couples see the law of the state to hold a unique cultural power to legitimate their relationships and identities, Hull finds that their opponents equally look to the law to re-establish a social normalcy that excludes same-sex relationships. This is a timely look at a contentious issue. |
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Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law Kathleen Hull,Kathleen E. Hull Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |
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ambivalence argued argument benefits Bess Brenda Brenda Davis civil rights civil unions cohabitation cohabitors commitment ceremony constitutional amendment context couple’s court cultural model cultural practices define described domestic partner domestic partnership event feel female couples financial find findings first friends gay rights gays and lesbians gender Hawaii heterosexual homosexuality impacts influence institution of marriage interest interview issue Judith Klein ketubah kind lack legal marriage legal recognition legal same-sex marriage legitimacy lesbian community lesbian couples letters lives majority marriage licenses marriage rights married couples meaning ment monogamy moral opponents of same-sex parents people’s political public commitment ritual public debates public ritual recognition for same-sex recognized reflect religious riage ritual participants Robbie role romantic love same-sex couples same-sex relationships same-sex rituals Sarah Robbins sexual significant social society specific status study participants support for legal symbolic themes traditional Vermont views wedding witnesses
Passagens conhecidas
Página 54 - Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? And the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that "whether he should choose one or not, he would repent it.
Página 87 - In the name of God, I, (Brad/Kevin), take you, (Kevin/Brad), to be my mate for life, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.
Página 74 - It [a pure relationship] refers to a situation where a social relation is entered into for its own sake, for what can be derived by each person from a sustained association with another; and which is continued only in so far as it is thought by both parties to deliver enough satisfaction for each individual to stay within it.
Página 213 - Vermont court held: that the State is constitutionally required to extend to same-sex couples the common benefits and protections that flow from marriage under Vermont law. Whether this ultimately takes the form of inclusion within the marriage laws themselves or a parallel "domestic partnership" system or some equivalent statutory alternative, rests with the Legislature.
Página 229 - Laws for the encouragement of virtue and prevention of vice and immorality ought to be constantly kept in force, and duly executed, and a competent number of schools ought to be maintained in each town, for the convenient instruction of youth, and one or more grammar schools be incorporated and properly supported, in each county in this State.
Página 37 - Swidler (1986: 273), culture is a "tool kit of symbols, stories, rituals, and world views, which people may use in varying configurations to solve different kinds of problems.
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Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition Mathieu Deflem Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American ... Kimberly D. Richman Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |