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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Virginia Lee Badgett |
| ISBN: | 9780814709306 0814709303 9780814791141 081479114X |
| OCLC Number: | 780978378 |
| Description: | XI, 287 str. : graf. prikazi, tabele ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: A Different Perspective 2 Why Marry? The Value of Marriage 3 Forsaking All Other Options 4 The Impact of Gay Marriage on Heterosexuals 5 Something Borrowed: Trying Marriage On 6 Something New: Will Marriage Change Gay People? 7 Marriage Dissent in the Gay Community 8 Strange Bedfellows: Assessing Alternatives to Marriage 9 The Pace of Change: Are We Moving Too Fast? 10 Conclusion: Marriage Under Renovation? Appendix 1: Constructing Measures and Making Comparisons Appendix 2: Methods Involved in the Dutch Couples Study Notes Index About the Author |
| Responsibility: | M.V. Lee Badgett. |
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Badgett's gleanings are enlightening . . . for anyone who cares about the issues raised by legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples. * California Lawyer * An eminently readable volume that draws on state population data, survesy, and Badgets own interviews. * Against The Current * On the heels of marriage debates all over the country, professor M.V. Lee Badgett comes out with an in-depth take on the big marriage questions: why and how? Badgett looks at marriage from all sides of the equation: sociological trends, the specific rights at hand as well as the interesting prospects of how a community shaped by legal inequality will adjust to unimaginable legal equality. * Instinct * Amid the intense controversy still surrounding same-sex marriage in the U.S., Badgett speaks in a refreshingly tempered voice. . . . Its a fine piece of social-science research, painstakingly detailed and compelling in its findings. * Ms. Magazine * When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage provides a well-grounded contribution to the arguments needed to fight for full rights for LGBT people here in the United States and around the world. * International Socialist Review * In When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Gay Marriage, Badgett offers perspective on same-sex marriage through carefully considered evidence emerging from other Western societies that have recognized civil protections for same-sex couples. In doing so, Badgett offers a unique book different from other works that may present purely legal, political, or historical views of same-sex marriage. Badgett's book will help scholars in a variety of social scientific fields and members of the public to gain a more full and realistic understanding of same-sex marriage and its place in societies. -- Pamela J. Lannutti * Sex Roles * This is the best analysis of same-sex marriage to date. A brilliant book. -- Verta Taylor,co-author of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret Badgetts cogent and comprehensive study of the societal implications of same-sex marriage is learned and persuasive; gays and lesbians who once again pick up their protest signs and banners might do well to bring along Badgetts book as well. * Publishers Weekly * When Gay People Get Married devotes considerable time to contemplating whether marriage discrimination against same-sex couples can be equitably rectified by alternative forms of family recognition--something that could satisfy or at least appeal to both conservative and radical opponents of marriage. * Women's Review of Books * Read more...
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- Civil unions.
- Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Same-sex marriage.
- Homoseksualci -- Poroka -- Družbeni vidik.
- Istospolna partnerska skupnost -- Pravna ureditev.
- Union civile.
- Homosexuels -- Mariage.
- Matrimonial law.
- Marriage.
- Civil union.
- Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
- Pravo zakonske zveze.
- Sklenitev zakonske zveze.
- Registrirana skupnost.
- Diskriminacija na podlagi spolne usmerjenosti.
- zakonska zveza -- legalizacija -- družbene posledice
