The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique

ISBN-13: 9781138502680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Bronwyn Winter

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I (Same-sex) marriage as institution 1. Marriage and family as value in liberal capitalist societies  2. From subversive challenge to liberal rights  3. State rationales: Three case studies Part II Selling same-sex marriage  4. Rainbowing the workplace  5. Same-sex wedding tourism  6. Same-sex marriage intersectionally: Gender, class and race dynamics Part III The political economy of "rainbow families"  7. "Working families": Parenting, productivity and policy  8. "Caring families" and the (still) gendered privatisation of risk  9. Gay dads: The "queered" political economy of surrogacy  Conclusion