The hierarchy of marriage and civil partnerships

Maine, Alexander

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“…The 2013 Act has been argued to contribute to a 'sexual hierarchy' (Rubin 1984), particularly in the reaffirmation of conjugal, coupled relationships that are representative of a 'gold standard' of relationship recognition (Ashford et al 2020;Maine 2020) in a normative sense, one that further validates and upholds the 'naturalness' and inherent conjugality of heterosexual marriage (Maine 2021) and the naturalness of coupled, dyadic relationships. Recognition, as it is, validates and rewards conjugal couples: if the law were to adopt a more diverse policy of reform, a greater range of relationships could be recognized, abandoning the dyadic focus of the law.…”

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Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Maine

2021

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This article explores ‘bad’ sex in an age of same-sex marriage, through an analysis of the ‘homoradical’ as a rejection of both hetero and homo-normativities. Drawing on qualitative data from 29 LGBTQ interviewees, the article considers resistance to the discursive privileging of same-sex marriage in the context of Gayle Rubin’s theories of respectability and sexual hierarchies. These hierarchies constitute a ‘charmed circle’ of accepted sexual practices which are traditionally justified by marriage, procreation and/or love. It examines non-normative sexuality through the example of the lived experiences of non-normative, anti-assimilationist identities, particularly non-monogamy, public sex, and kink sex, showing how the ‘homoradical’ deviates from the normative practices that same-sex marriage reinforces.

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Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Maine

2021

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Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom

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2020

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

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Act 2004 (GRA 2004), where an applicant successfully obtains a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), that "person's gender becomes for all purposes the acquired 9 gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person's [legal] sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person's [legal] sex becomes that of a woman)." 10 As Flora Renz notes in Chapter 6, the GRA 2004 was a landmark moment for human rights -both in this jurisdiction and across Europe. In England and Wales, the legislation represented an explicit, statutory repudiation of the (in)famous Corbett 11 case law 12 -under which trans persons had been denied validation of their lived identity. For Europe, and farther afield, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 stood as a key point of departure -a national framework, which showed that self-identified gender could be acknowledged without requiring an applicant to undertake a process of sterilisation. 13

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Queer Coalition? The Crisis of Justice in Poland and LGBTQ+ Rights Before the Polish Courts

Kubal

2024

Europe-Asia Studies

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The hierarchy of marriage and civil partnerships

Cited by 3 publications

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Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom

Queer Coalition? The Crisis of Justice in Poland and LGBTQ+ Rights Before the Polish Courts

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