Mixed-sex civil partnerships: developing a morality of love

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16886294054314

Julia Carter, Nikki Hayfield

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Abstract

Civil partnerships were extended to mixed-sex couples in England and Wales at the end of 2019, shortly followed by Northern Ireland (2020) and Scotland (2021). Since then, thousands of mixed-sex couples have entered a civil partnership. While civil partnerships were favoured by politicians as an alternative to legal rights for cohabitants, we know little about why mixed-sex couples would choose a civil partnership. In 2020–21 we interviewed individuals and couples who had entered or were planning a mixed-sex civil partnership (MSCP) to explore this further. We find that MSCPs are constructed in opposition to the ‘traditional’ image of marriage/weddings and yet symbolic elements including dress, form and structure are necessarily relied on in constructing something new, via a process of bricolage. Moreover, through civil partnership motivation talk, mixed-sex couples are constructing an individual morality that is centred on resisting cultural norms, advocating equality and justice, and pragmatic love.

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男女混合的民事伴侣关系:发展爱的道德

2019年底，英格兰和威尔士的民事伴侣关系扩大到混合性别伴侣，紧接着是北爱尔兰（2020年）和苏格兰（2021年）。从那时起，成千上万的男女混合伴侣开始建立民事伴侣关系。虽然民事伴侣关系被政客们视为同居者合法权利的替代方案，但我们对男女混合伴侣为什么会选择民事伴侣关系知之甚少。2020-2021年，我们采访了已经或正在计划建立混合性别民事伴侣关系（MSCP）的个人和夫妇，以进一步探讨这一点。我们发现，MSCP的构建与婚姻/婚礼的“传统”形象相反，但在通过拼凑的过程构建新事物时，必须依赖包括服装、形式和结构在内的象征性元素。此外，通过民事伴侣关系动机对话，男女混合伴侣正在构建一种以抵制文化规范、倡导平等正义和务实爱情为核心的个人道德。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.