The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage : A Feminist Critique Paperback / softback
by Bronwyn Winter
Part of the Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics series
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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 institutionalization of same-sex marriage and so-called "rainbow families" within (neo)liberal capitalist democracies.
It examines how states and markets appropriate same-sex marriage and family to enhance their own political and symbolic capital, consolidating power and profit within existing systems of gendered and raced socioeconomic stratification.
Taking a radical feminist, heterodox, qualitative and intersectional approach, this book investigates the political economy of same-sex marriage across three axes: same-sex marriage as institution; same-sex marriage and the market; and the political economy of the "rainbow family".
The examination of case studies from different countries and regions enables a comparative analysis that foregrounds cultural, political and economic path dependencies while at the same time highlighting a number of striking commonalities.
In all the countries discussed in this book and in most respects, same-sex marriage has been integrated almost seamlessly into a mainstream/malestream political economy of marriage and family and its translation into added market and productive value.
The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique will be of use to researchers and students alike, and indeed to all those who are curious about the mainstreaming of homosexuality within twenty-first-century capitalist democracies.
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- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/12/2020
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781138502680