ISBN:
9783319627649
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
Series Statement:
Global Queer Politics Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Winter, Bronwyn Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage : A Neo-Institutional Approach
DDC:
306.848
Keywords:
Same-sex marriage
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Series Editors Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Scholarship on Same-Sex Marriage -- Theoretical Framework -- The Role of Legal Incrementalism -- Overview of Chapters -- Plan of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Institutionalizing Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina and Mexico: The Role of Federalism -- Introduction -- Institutions, Public Policy and Federalism -- Two Roads, One Destination: Sharing Policy Trajectories -- Gay and Lesbian Mobilization -- From Anti-Discrimination to Same-Sex Civil Unions -- To Same-Sex Marry or Not -- Parting Ways: The Bifurcation of the Road -- Continued Challenges to Institutionalization in Mexico -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Congresses: Sex, Institutions, and Evangelicals in Brazil and Chile -- Introduction -- Social Movement Mobilization -- Social Movement Strength in Brazil -- Social Movement Strength in Chile -- Conservative Opposition -- The Countermovement to LGBT Rights in Brazil -- Conservative Opposition to LGBT Rights in Chile -- The Courts -- An Ally in the Courts -- Courts as a Dead-End Road -- Historical Institutionalism and Judicialization -- Political Opportunity Structures -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Historical Institutionalism and Same-Sex Marriage: A Comparative Analysis of the USA and Canada -- Introduction -- Historical Institutionalism, the Ideational Turn, and Same-Sex Marriage -- Political Institutions in Canada and the USA -- Federalism -- Separation of Powers -- Judicial Power -- Policy Legacies and Ideational Factors -- Conclusion -- References -- Legal Cases -- Other Sources -- Chapter 5: Understanding Same-Sex Marriage Debates in Malawi and South Africa -- Introduction -- Discursive Institutionalism and Same-Sex Marriage -- Methodology
Abstract:
Discursive Anxiety About Same-Sex Marriage in Malawi -- Same-Sex Marriage and Human Rights Discourse in South Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Same-Sex Marriage in France and Spain: Comparing Resistance in a Centralized Secular Republic and the Dynamics of Change in a "Quasi-Federal" Constitutional Monarchy -- Introduction -- French and Spanish Sexual Rights in Context -- The Narratives of French Continuity and of Spanish Modernity -- French and Spanish Same-Sex Marriage Laws: Ambivalent Reforms that Lie Somewhere Between Revolution and Compromise -- Conclusion: Spanish Modern Democracy Versus the French Mythicized Republic -- References -- Chapter 7: Europeanizing vs. Nationalizing the Issue of Same-Sex Marriage in Central Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Framing Processes in Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia -- Introduction -- Regulating Sexual Orientation in Central and Eastern Europe -- From State Socialism to Democracy -- Making Sense of Diversity -- Framing Recognition of Same-Sex Couples: Between Nationalization and Europeanization -- Domestic Framing of the Issue of Gay Marriage? Hungary and Slovenia -- Hungary -- Slovenia -- Contentious Europeanization Versus the Nation: Croatia and Slovakia -- Croatia -- Slovakia -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Preserving the Social Fabric: Debating Family, Equality and Polity in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Australia -- Introduction -- Some Institutional Background -- The UK: Juridical and Discursive Activism -- When Legal Incrementalism Becomes Also a Roadblock -- Indirect Juridical Activism Meets Liberal-Conservative Convergence -- Ireland: Catholic/catholic Inclusion -- Endogenous and Exogenous Factors -- Catholic Catholics -- Australia: Pre-emptive Interventionism -- The Marriage Amendment Act -- Out in Politics -- Conclusion -- References
Abstract:
Chapter 9: The Globalization of LGBT Identity and Same-Sex Marriage as a Catalyst of Neo-institutional Values: Singapore and Indonesia in Focus -- Introduction -- Indonesia -- Institutionalizing Sex: The Birth of LGBT Subjects -- The (Further) Institutionalization of the Institutionalized -- Singapore and Same-Sex Marriage? -- British Colonialism and Postcolonial Institutional Legacies -- LGBT Contestations and Constitutional Challenges -- Global City Aspirations and Transnational LGBT Activisms -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Pathways to Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in China and Taiwan: Globalization and "Chinese Values" -- Introduction -- Case Study 1: China -- Background -- Advocacy for Same-Sex Marriage -- Case Study 2: Taiwan -- Background -- Advocacy for Same-Sex Marriage -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Erratum to: Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage -- Index
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