Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Political Economy Of Same - Sex Marriage A Feminist Critique
Author(s): Winter Bronwyn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138502680
Pages: 246 Pages
Publication Date: 12/30/2020
Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
Category: Political Economy