Changing Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes in America from 1988 Through 2010

Exposure to open defecation has serious consequences for child mortality, health, and human capital development. South Asia has the highest rates of open defecation worldwide, and although the incidence declines as household income rises, differences across South Asian countries are not explained by differences in per capita income. The rate of open defecation in sub-national regions of Bangladesh, India and Nepal is highly correlated with the fraction of the population that identifies as Hindu, in part because certain rituals of purity and pollution discourage having latrines in close proximity to one’s home. Almost all open defecation occurs in rural areas, and this paper estimates how much the rate could be reduced if rural households in regions that have a higher fraction of Hindus, where open defecation is still common, altered their behaviour to reflect that of non-Hindu households in regions that are predominantly non-Hindu, where the rate of open defecation is much lower. Using nonparametric reweighting methods, this paper projects that rural open defecation in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal could be reduced to rates of between 6 and 8 per cent, compared to the prevailing level of 65 per cent.

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“…For example, attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed considerably over time in the United States (Baunach, 2012). …”

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Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?

Vyas

Spears

2018

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…While a pernicious strain of homophobia and biphobia has traditionally been detected in U.S. and U.K. sexual morality (Eliason, 1997;Loftus, 2001), there has been a positive shift in attitudes toward homosexuality over the past 30 years (Baunach, 2012;Clements & Field, 4 2014; Keleher & Smith, 2012). General Social Survey (GSS) data show the proportion of the U.S. population condemning homosexuality has steadily declined since 1987.…”

Section: Decreasing Homophobia and Biphobiamentioning

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Identities and Identifications: Changes in Metropolitan Bisexual Men's Attitudes and Experiences

McCormack

Wignall

Anderson

2015

Journal of Bisexuality

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractDrawing on 90 interviews with men who identify as bisexual from London, Los Angeles and New York, this article examines how bisexual men from three different age cohorts remember first experiencing bisexuality, how they sexually identify today, and how this is changing with younger groups of men. By using an innovative recruitment strategy, the majority of participants are not affiliated with bisexual community groups or counseling services. Thus, it provides insight into how bisexuals outside of these specific institutional settings feel about their sexual identities. Findings support Savin-Williams's (2005) contention that sexual identities are becoming less central to the lives of younger generations,

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“…7 Cf. Friedman (1987), Damsel (1992), Eskridge (1993Eskridge ( , 1996, Cox (1994Cox ( , 2000, Kramer (1997), Culhane (1998), Wedgwood (1999), Hull (2001Hull ( , 2006, Waaldijk (2001Waaldijk ( , 2004 Encarnación (2011), Saez (2011), Spilsbury (2011) and Baunach (2012. 8 Warner (1999) argues that same-sex marriage has never been broad-based amongst gay and lesbian activists in the US, and depended on the courts for its realisation.…”

Section: The Queer Position On Same-sex Marriagementioning

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A critical engagement? Analysing same-sex marriage discourses in To Have and to Hold: The Making of Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa (2008) – A queer perspective

McCormick

2015

SPiL Plus

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The legalisation of same-sex marriage in South Africa in November 2006 made the country the exemplar for gay and lesbian rights in Africa. The advocacy of, struggle for, and finally winning the right to marry was a euphoric victory for numerous gay and lesbian people. The various steps that had to be negotiated in order to pass the Civil Union Act are documented in To Have and to Hold: The Making of Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa (2008, hereafter To Have and to Hold). The blurb at the back of To Have and to Hold describes the book as "invaluable for understanding [the same-sex marriage] journey and its legal, social, cultural and religious ramifications". The editors of the volume, Judge, Manion and de Waal, add that the various stakeholders that supported same-sex marriage "adequately interrogated the role and function of marriage" (Judge et al. 2008: 12). In this article, I put this claim to the test by interrogating the legal, social, cultural and religious reasons put forward in favour of same-sex marriage in To Have and to Hold. From a queer point of view, same-sex marriage is problematic because it ignores the regulatory power of the state, the fact that marriage is a public tradition, the argument that the supposed "respectability" bestowed by marriage is a farce, and the contention that legal benefits should be given to people regardless of their marital status. I use queer linguistic tools to deconstruct the claim by the editors that the text represents a "critical engagement" with same-sex marriage (Judge et al. 2008: 1). I conclude the article by showing how, rather than opening a space for the "recognition of diverse sexualities and relationship forms" (Judge et al. 2008: 12), the Civil Union Act is limited to those people who self-identify as gay or lesbian.

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Changing Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes in America from 1988 Through 2010

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Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?

Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries?

Identities and Identifications: Changes in Metropolitan Bisexual Men's Attitudes and Experiences

A critical engagement? Analysing same-sex marriage discourses in To Have and to Hold: The Making of Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa (2008) – A queer perspective

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