Marriage Equality: Two Generations of Gender and Sexually Diverse Australians

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Australian Feminist Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/08164649.2020.1793661

Rob Cover, M. Rasmussen, Christy E. Newman, Daniel Marshall, P. Aggleton

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Marriage equality is routinely located as evidencing a domestic, non-radical or neoliberal approach to sexual diversity. This article questions such assumptions by highlighting the reflexive approach to the utility of marriage and the significant diversity of opinion and attitudes towards marriage equality among gender- and sexually-diverse Australians. It does so by drawing on a major study of two social generations of gender- and sexually-diverse Australians’ conducted in the lead-up to a controversial postal survey on same-sex marriage in 2017. In the survey many participants discussed their views on marriage equality, its benefits, and how they saw its relationship or relevance to their own lives. This article identifies four themes present in participants’ responses: (1) the personal and domestic importance of marriage equality to some participants; (2) the social and political affordances of marriage equality for LGBTQ+ persons in Australia more generally; (3) the apparently unremarkable status of marriage equality for some participants; and (4) continuing deep ambivalence about marriage equality for others.

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婚姻平等:两代性别和性别多样化的澳大利亚人

婚姻平等通常被视为一种国内的、非激进的或新自由主义的性多样性方法的证据。本文通过强调对婚姻效用的反射性方法以及性别和性别多样化的澳大利亚人对婚姻平等的意见和态度的显著多样性，对这种假设提出了质疑。这项研究是在2017年一项有争议的同性婚姻邮政调查之前，通过对两代社会性别和性别多样化的澳大利亚人进行的一项重大研究来实现的。在调查中，许多参与者讨论了他们对婚姻平等的看法，它的好处，以及他们如何看待它与自己生活的关系或相关性。本文确定了参与者回答中的四个主题:(1)婚姻平等对一些参与者的个人和家庭重要性;(2)澳大利亚LGBTQ+群体婚姻平权的社会和政治支持;(3)一些参与者的婚姻平等地位明显不显著;(4)对他人婚姻平等的持续深刻矛盾心理。

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期刊介绍： Australian Feminist Studies was launched in the summer of 1985 by the Research Centre for Women"s Studies at the University of Adelaide. During the subsequent two decades it has become a leading journal of feminist studies. As an international, peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies is proud to sustain a clear political commitment to feminist teaching, research and scholarship. The journal publishes articles of the highest calibre from all around the world, that contribute to current developments and issues across a spectrum of feminisms.