Queering Marriage : Challenging Family Formation in the United States /
Kimport, Katrina
Queering Marriage : Challenging Family Formation in the United States / Katrina Kimport. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 figures, 3 tables - Families in Focus .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Winter of Love -- 2. Marrying for the Movement -- 3. Marrying for Rights -- 4. Marrying for Love -- 5. Gender and Parenthood -- 6. The Persistent Power of Marriage -- 7. Exposing Heteronormativity -- 8. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
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Over four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as some hope, challenges heterosexual privilege or, as others fear, preserves that privilege by assimilating queer couples. In Queering Marriage, Katrina Kimport uses in-depth interviews with participants in the San Francisco weddings to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, she contends, these new legally sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the association of marriage and heterosexuality. During her deeply personal conversations with same-sex spouses, Kimport learned that the majority of respondents did characterize their marriages as an opportunity to contest heterosexual privilege. Yet, in a seeming contradiction, nearly as many also cited their desire for access to the normative benefits of matrimony, including social recognition and legal rights. Kimport's research revealed that the pattern of ascribing meaning to marriage varied by parenthood status and, in turn, by gender. Lesbian parents were more likely to embrace normative meanings for their unions; those who are not parents were more likely to define their relationships as attempts to contest dominant understandings of marriage. By posing the question-can queers "queer" marriage?-Kimport provides a nuanced, accessible, and theoretically grounded framework for understanding the powerful effect of heterosexual expectations on both sexual and social categories.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813562223 9780813562230
10.36019/9780813562230 doi
2013010364
Gay rights--California--San Francisco.
Gay rights--United States.
Same-sex marriage--California--San Francisco.
Same-sex marriage--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
National marriage equality movement.
HQ1034.U5 / K56 2014 HQ1034.U5 / K56 2014eb
306.84/80973
Queering Marriage : Challenging Family Formation in the United States / Katrina Kimport. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 figures, 3 tables - Families in Focus .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Winter of Love -- 2. Marrying for the Movement -- 3. Marrying for Rights -- 4. Marrying for Love -- 5. Gender and Parenthood -- 6. The Persistent Power of Marriage -- 7. Exposing Heteronormativity -- 8. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Over four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as some hope, challenges heterosexual privilege or, as others fear, preserves that privilege by assimilating queer couples. In Queering Marriage, Katrina Kimport uses in-depth interviews with participants in the San Francisco weddings to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, she contends, these new legally sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the association of marriage and heterosexuality. During her deeply personal conversations with same-sex spouses, Kimport learned that the majority of respondents did characterize their marriages as an opportunity to contest heterosexual privilege. Yet, in a seeming contradiction, nearly as many also cited their desire for access to the normative benefits of matrimony, including social recognition and legal rights. Kimport's research revealed that the pattern of ascribing meaning to marriage varied by parenthood status and, in turn, by gender. Lesbian parents were more likely to embrace normative meanings for their unions; those who are not parents were more likely to define their relationships as attempts to contest dominant understandings of marriage. By posing the question-can queers "queer" marriage?-Kimport provides a nuanced, accessible, and theoretically grounded framework for understanding the powerful effect of heterosexual expectations on both sexual and social categories.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813562223 9780813562230
10.36019/9780813562230 doi
2013010364
Gay rights--California--San Francisco.
Gay rights--United States.
Same-sex marriage--California--San Francisco.
Same-sex marriage--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
National marriage equality movement.
HQ1034.U5 / K56 2014 HQ1034.U5 / K56 2014eb
306.84/80973