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Title Same-sex marriage in the Americas : policy innovation for same-sex relationships / edited by Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti-Crocker, and Shawn Schulenberg.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.848097 Sa44s 2010    ---  Available
Description vi, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Democracy, discursive frames, and same-sex unions : a cross-national analysis / Ahmed Khanani and Jean C. Robinson -- Constructing policy innovation in Argentina : from gender quotas to same-sex marriage / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- The Argentine supreme court and the construction of a constitutional protection of sexual minorities / Laura Saldivia -- Policy stability without policy : the battle for same-sex partnership recognition in Brazil / Shawn Schulenberg -- Same-sex relationship equality in Mexico / Genaro Lozano -- Deconstructing the backlash : same-sex marriage litigation and social change in the United States and Canada / Jason Pierceson -- Legal struggles and political resistance : same-sex marriage in Canada and the United States / Nancy Nicol and Miriam Smith -- The distinctive centrality of marriage in the United States / David Rayside -- Juristocracy in the Americas? / Jason Pierceson.
Subject Same-sex marriage -- America.
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- America.
Added Author Pierceson, Jason, 1972-
Piatti-Crocker, Adriana, 1963-
Schulenberg, Shawn, 1979-
ISBN 9780739128664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739128663 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739128657 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739128655 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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