Overview
- Examines not simply the process of legalization (or not) of same-sex marriage, but also the institutionalization of same-sex marriage (or same-sex marriage bans) in national politics and society
- Provides a transnational perspective across all major world regions where the issue has been debated, with each chapter providing a comparative analysis of two to four countries
- Considers the tensions between global factors and national/regional factors in determining outcomes and discursive framings
Part of the book series: Global Queer Politics (GQP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of—or refusal to adopt—same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions with respect to religion and the cultural foundations of the nation. Countries opposed to such legalization, and those having taken measures in recent years to legally reinforce the heterosexual fundaments of marriage, present a similar diversity. This diversity, in a globalized context where the idea of same-sex marriage has become integral to claims for LGBTI equality and indeed LGBTI human rights, gives rise to the following question: which factors contribute to institutionalizing same-sex marriage?
The analytical framework used for exploring these factors in this book is neo-institutionalism. Through three neo-institutionalist lenses—historical, sociological and discursive—contributors investigate two aspects of the processes of adoption or opposition of equal recognition of same-sex partnerships. Firstly, they reveal how claims by LGBTIQ movements are being framed politically and brought to parliamentary politics. Secondly, they explore the ways in which same-sex marriage becomes institutionalized (or resisted) through legal and societal norms and practices. Although it adopts neo-institutionalism as its main theoretical framework, the book incorporates a broad range of perspectives, including scholarship on social movements, LGBTI rights, heterosexuality and social norms, and gender and politics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bronwyn Winter is Deputy Director of the European Studies program at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she also contributes to the International and Global Studies program.
Maxime Forest is Researcher, Senior Lecturer, and Scientific Coordinator at the EU-funded EGERA project (Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia, Framework Project 7) at Sciences Po Paris, France.
Réjane Sénac is a National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Tenured Researcher at the Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po Paris, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
Book Subtitle: A Neo-Institutional Approach
Editors: Bronwyn Winter, Maxime Forest, Réjane Sénac
Series Title: Global Queer Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62764-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62763-2Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87388-6Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62764-9Published: 08 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2569-1317
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1309
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 241
Topics: Politics and Gender, Comparative Politics, Globalization, Development and Gender, Gender and Sexuality, Gender, Sexuality and Law