The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico
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- Synopsis
- Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why Latin America, a culturally Catholic and historically conservative region, has become a leader among nations of the Global South, and even the Global North, in the passage of gay marriage legislation. In the first comparative study of its kind, Jordi Díez explains cross-national variation in the enactment of gay marriage in three countries: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Based on extensive interviews in the three countries, Díez argues that three main key factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases: the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by particular national political institutions; and the resonance of the frames used to demand the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples. Makes a significant theoretical contribution by combining two approaches in the social sciences that are engaged separately: social movements and public policy. The first book to examine cross-national variation in the expansion of gay marriage in Latin America. The only volume to provide a historical comparative and systematic account of three gay and lesbian movements in Latin America.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316290101
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/28/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Jordi Díez
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.