SOAN 2400 Chapter 15: Chapter 15 .docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: c

Document Summary

Same-sex marriage and canadian relationship recognition: one step. Mul analyzes the privileges of marriage from a critical liberationist perspective. Analysis using this perspective through a queer lens is used in this study. Marriage creates a system that allows the state to regulate relationships. Proponents of same-sex marriage accept the regime of marriage. There should be no hierarchy of legally recognized relationships, such as placing marriage at a higher level than common-law relationships or non-conjugal relationships" (clgro, 2003, p. 2) (133) Extending marriage to same sex coulples was controvercial by exposing heterosexual extended family and friends to a same-sex marital coupling, traditional concepts of marriage are challenged (cox, 1997)"(134) Same-sex marriage nevertheless remains enframed in traditional heterosexual couplist structures of marriage. Same-sex marriage contributes to a heteronormative discourse, which impacts on gay male identity that is queer-based and distinguished from the heteronormative male" (grindstaff, 2003). (134)