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Pickler, Jennifer A. "Factors contributing to increased support for state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage withing the fifty United States /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/317.
Full textCurme, Christopher M. "Same-sex, different response to marriage: Does legal marriage matter for same-sex couples in the United States?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461846075.
Full textDunlop, Samuel Everett Christian. "Exploring Connections Between Efforts to Restrict Same-Sex Marriage and Surging Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage Rights: Could Efforts to Restrict Gay Rights Help to Explain Increases in Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage?" PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1785.
Full textPlesa, Claudia. "Race, Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Unions in the United States." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/242.
Full textPark, Andrew. "Litigation and Social Change in the United States : The Case of Same-Sex Marriage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508654.
Full textMadigan, Corinne James. "The "M" Word: An Analysis of Gay Marriage in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/698.
Full textThere is perhaps no issue more controversial in the so-called American culture war than that of gay marriage. In the last five years, four states have legalized same-sex marriages and several more appear poised to follow suit. This paper creates an analytical framework with which to evaluate the chances of successful gay marriage initiatives in any given state. Demographics, political institutions, and state-specific variables make up the three parts of the framework, which is then applied to three case studies in which gay marriage has already been addressed: Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. A fourth case, Maine, serves as a prediction state to test the validity of the framework. The paper’s conclusions indicate that, in the current political and cultural domain, there is a set of factors that tend to promote the legalization of gay marriage. The demographics of a population need to be such that they qualify as a “tolerant citizenry,” people who are hesitatingly accepting of gay marriage and can be persuaded to support that legalization. On the political side, a positive evaluation of gay marriage by the state supreme court that then passes on responsibility to the state legislature is the most conducive to legalization. The court provides the constitutional and legal grounds for gay marriage, while the legislature acts as an intermediary between the justices and the wider population. Finally, states in which the constitutions are difficult to amend, and which amendment procedures are controlled by the legislature, are the most likely to legalize gay marriage. The application of the framework to the three case studies illustrates this complex process
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science Honors Program
Discipline: Political Science
Musser, Lauren. "An Examination of Same-Sex Marriage After Lawrence v. Texas." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/720.
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Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Michael. "The culture of knowledge : constructing "expertise" in legal debate on marriage and kinship for same-sex couples in France and the United States." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0111.
Full textThis dissertation asks how and why american and french decision-makers—and those striving to persuade them-use specific kinds of "experts" and "expertise" when debating if same-sex couples should have the right (or not) to marry and found families. To answer these questions, I analyze archival, interview, and ethnographic data to study "expertise"—conceived broadly—in media, legislative, and judicial debates on the U. S. State, U. S. Federal, french, and european levels from 1990 to 2013. I find that, despite addressing the same issues, decision-makers draw on divergent categories of "experts" mobilizing types of knowledge that follow systematic cross-national patterns. For instance, french institutions hear professors and intellectuals who discuss gay family rights in the abstract while U. S. Institutions hear ordinary citizens whose lived experiences ground academic testimony. Furthermore, some "expertise", such as economics in the U. S. Or psychoanalysis in France, is pervasive in one context but absent in the other. I argue that nationally specific patterns in "expertise" are due to embedded institutional logics, legal structures, and knowledge production fields that impact how information is produced, made available, and rendered legitimate nationally and historically
Bosley-Smith, Emma R. "Before and After `I Do': Marriage Processes For Mid-Life Gay and Lesbian Married Couples." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1490879787728175.
Full textO'Connor, Daniel J. "Sex signs: transsexuality, autobiography, and the languages of sexual difference in the United Kingdom and United States of America, 1950-2000." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2454/.
Full textPeterson, Sarahfina Aubrey. "The Effect of Social Media on Public Awareness and Extra-Judicial Effects: The Gay Marriage Cases and Litigating for New Rights." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2086.
Full textMorris, Robert Nathanael. "Surfing the Tide of Sex Anarchy: How Sexual Co-Revolutionaries Remade Evangelical Marriage, 1960-1980." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6328.
Full textAbnet, Dustin A. "RADICAL UNION: GENDER, PERSONALITY, AND POLITICS IN THE MARRIAGE OF META AND VICTOR BERGER." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1155073333.
Full textGarcia, Adan Martin. "Same-Sex Marriage and the States: Policy and its Determinants." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297582.
Full textPratt, Lisa Michelle. "SAME SEX ADOPTION AND PARENTING IN THE UNITED STATES." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/197265.
Full textBal, Surinder. "The Lived Experiences of South Asian Same-Sex Attracted Women Residing in the United States." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10240458.
Full textSouth Asian same-sex attracted women in the United States experience discrimination and marginalization that puts them at an increased risk for mental health issues. Research shows their rates of counseling and psychotherapy use are low due to perceptions of stigma, lack of knowledge, and concerns about culturally insensitive treatment plans. Mental health providers lack the literature needed to inform culturally sensitive treatment plans to address these concerning gaps in services, and an extensive literature review found no studies on the lived experiences of this population. Guided by feminist theory, this research study examined how discrimination, oppression, and marginalization mold women’s lived experiences; this knowledge aims to serve as a means to advocate for social and political change for this population. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of this population. An emergent hand coding analysis, using experiential anecdotes, of data collected from interviews of 10 participants generated 10 major themes and 25 subthemes of experiences. Themes included importance of cultural values; familial relationships; marital life plan; intersectionality; and discrimination from gender disparity, patriarchal hierarchy, and sexual modesty. The study contributes to social change initiatives by providing culturally and contextually practical information to mental health professionals, counselor educators, and educational institutions that provide services to this population.
Bal, Surinder Kaur. "The Lived Experiences of South Asian Same-Sex Attracted Women Residing in the United States." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2953.
Full textBergsten, Hanna. "A matter of equality, religion or politics? : The proliferation of same-sex marriage legislationamong the member states in the European Union." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37391.
Full textMitchell, Ethel Whitfield. "A comparison of achievement and attendance of fifth grade African American male and female students attending same-gender classes and coeducational classes in two inner city schools." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40152.
Full textJensen, Karla E. "An Exploration of Perspectives on the Events Leading to the Adoption of the Same-Sex Liturgy in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America." Thesis, Brandman University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10637459.
Full textPurpose. At the time, the subject of this study was selected, little to no information was available regarding why the Episcopal Church had decided at the 2012 General Convention had adopted a liturgy to provide a sacramental blessing to same-sex unions. The purpose of this study was to determine what factors and organizational culture elements the Bishops believed led to the adoption of the liturgy.
Methodology. A qualitative case study methodology was employed to collect the data needed to answer the research questions. This data included responses from 12 bishops to 13 semi-structured questions aligned with Edgar Schein’s theoretical, cultural analysis model. Respondents replies were recorded; the recordings were transcribed, and the transcribed data was inputted into NVivo 11 software for analysis. Triangulation included the literature review, transcriptions, and the collected documentation.
Findings. Major themes were identified for each research question. The finding (or themes) for Research Question 1 were justice, inclusion and equality. Themes for Research Question 2 were relationship, room at the table, long-term and autonomy Research 3 leadership in the church is bishops composed of each Episcopal Bishop, rather than a single spearhead.
Conclusions. (a) Schein’s methodology for culture analysis proved to be valid for this case study, (b) Schein’s theory of culture resting on a single leader did not lend itself to this study, and, (c) the Episcopalian’s three-pronged discernment method allows the Church to remain relevant in this ever-changing world.
Implementation for Action. The Episcopal Church should: (a) remain an active voice in human rights issues, (b) provide guidance to other religious groups struggling with marital equity, (c) continue to utilize the current discernment process to remain relevant (d) persist in reconciling people to each other, (e) provide communal decision-making workshops for community business leaders to encourage active employee participation and f) open their church to function as a haven for the marginalized and refugees.
Taylor, James Benjamin. "Do Wedge Issues Matter?: Examining Persuadable Voters and Base Mobilization in the 2004 Presidential Election." unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04172009-110253/.
Full textTitle from file title page. Sean Richey, committee chair; Richard Engstrom , Jason Reifler , committee members. Description based on contents viewed July 22, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-41).
Chalmers, Jennifer Joan. "Why marry? : an economic analysis of the male marriage premium." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146116.
Full text"City of desire: A history of same-sex desire in New Orleans, 1917-1977." Tulane University, 2009.
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Duncan, Simon, and M. Phillips. "New families? Tradition and change in partnering and relationships." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2239.
Full textThe family as a social institution is often said to be undergoing rapid change or even crisis. Commentary in the media and by policy-makers sometimes claims a `breakdown¿ of the family, asserting that intimate ties of loving and caring are becoming more individualised and self-centred, even selfish. Some scholars see this as part of a broader process whereby traditional social ties such as class, religion and family are fading away. Instead, they argue, people are `compelled to choose their own biographies¿ and personal relationships are being individually and actively chosen from a diverse range of possibilities. Statistically speaking, marriage is decreasing in popularity, whilst living alone, cohabitation and births outside marriage are increasing. But what do trends like this mean? Does this mean `family breakdown¿ or, as much in-depth family research has argued, just that the outward form of families is changing but the inner core - the value people attach to their family relationships ¿ remains central? This project tried to answer this question by examining the British public¿s attitude to different family relationships and parenting arrangements. It looked particularly at cohabitation and marriage, partnering, divorce, solo living, living apart together, same sex relationships and friends.
CHU, CHIH-WEI, and 朱智偉. "Research on the discourse of "for /against same-sex marriage" in the media: A case study of the Electronic newspapers of China Times, Liberty Times, United Daily News and Apple Daily." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s3529f.
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The issue of same-sex marriage is a volatile one in Taiwan. Taiwanese people are either for or against same-sex marriage. In 2017, the Constitutional Court announced the J.Y. Interpretation No. 748 stating that two persons of the same sex shall be allowed to get married. This Interpretation causes the dispute over same-sex marriage even more explosive. By using van dijk’s critical discourse analysis, the purpose of this study is to analyze the power relation and ideology within the news coverage. The news stories were collected from the four mainstream electronic newspapers, namely China Times, Liberty Times, United Daily News, and Apple Daily. 452 news stories and 4 public releases from both sides were analyzed. The results show the two sides have reinforced their strengths and employed their own strategies to convince people that they are the righteous and persecuted groups. However, the news resources are from the limited elite. As a result, the news representations reproduce power inequality in the society.
Maurer, Anna C. ""Churches in the Vanguard:" Margaret Sanger and the Morality of Birth Control in the 1920s." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7908.
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