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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