1st Edition
The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage A Feminist Critique
By Bronwyn Winter
Copyright 2021
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Same-sex marriage is now legal in twenty-nine countries and the subject of continued debate around the world. The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique considers this debate from a political economy perspective. Rather than engaging directly in the now well-rehearsed social-movement and academic for-and-against debates, this book focuses on processes of... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I (Same-sex) marriage as institution
- Marriage and family as value in liberal capitalist societies
- From subversive challenge to liberal rights
- State rationales: Three case studies
- Rainbowing the workplace
- Same-sex wedding tourism
- Same-sex marriage intersectionally: Gender, class and race dynamics
- "Working families": Parenting, productivity and policy
- "Caring families" and the (still) gendered privatisation of risk
- Gay dads: The "queered" political economy of surrogacy
Part II Selling same-sex marriage
Part III The political economy of "rainbow families"
Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Bronwyn Winter is Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she teaches in the European Studies and International and Global Studies programs. Her research lies at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, religion, migration, conflict and the state, often in relation to international discourses and practices concerning gendered political economy, human rights and violence in a globalised world.
