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Contesting same-sex marriage in talk-in-interaction. / Land, Vicky; Kitzinger, Celia.
In: Feminism and Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 05.2007, p. 173-183.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Contesting same-sex marriage in talk-in-interaction
AU - Land, Vicky
AU - Kitzinger, Celia
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - Recent legal developments in the UK have reasserted the traditional nuclearfamily as the normative model and defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This article uses conversation analysis (CA) to analyse naturally occurring telephone conversations in the course of which lesbians, gay men and their heterosexual advocates negotiate the term, 'marriage' in relation to lesbian and gay relationships. The data were collected in the UK after same-sex marriage was legally available in some countries and in the run-up to the legal introduction of 'civil partnerships' as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couples. Our analysis shows some of the interactional consequences of the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage in the UK.
AB - Recent legal developments in the UK have reasserted the traditional nuclearfamily as the normative model and defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This article uses conversation analysis (CA) to analyse naturally occurring telephone conversations in the course of which lesbians, gay men and their heterosexual advocates negotiate the term, 'marriage' in relation to lesbian and gay relationships. The data were collected in the UK after same-sex marriage was legally available in some countries and in the run-up to the legal introduction of 'civil partnerships' as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couples. Our analysis shows some of the interactional consequences of the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage in the UK.
KW - civil partnership
KW - conversation analysis
KW - gay marriage
KW - gay men
KW - lesbians
KW - marriage
KW - same-sex marriage
KW - social exclusion
KW - talk-in-interaction
KW - SPEAKING
U2 - 10.1177/0959353507076549
DO - 10.1177/0959353507076549
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 173
EP - 183
JO - Feminism and Psychology
JF - Feminism and Psychology
SN - 0959-3535
IS - 2
ER -