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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation
  name:
    name part: Sáez, Macarena.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 208 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law. Until forty years ago marriage was the only union considered legitimate to form a family. Today more than 30 countries have granted rights to same sex couples, including several that have opened up marriage to couples of the same sex. Every day there is a new bill being discussed or a new claim being brought to courts seeking formal recognition of same sex couples. Not all countries are open to changing their legal structures to accommodate same-sex couples, but even those with no visible changes are witnessing new voices in their communities challenging the status quo and envisioning more flexible legal systems.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction; Macarena Sáez -- 2. And the story comes to an end: The Constitutionality of Same-Sex Marriages in Spain; José María Lorenzo Villaverde -- 3. Same-sex unions in Mexico: between text and doctrine; Estefania Vela Barba -- 4. Same-sex Marriage in the United States: The New Protection to Marriage; Macarena Sáez -- 5. Marriage between two. Changing and unchanging concepts of family: The case of LGBTI rights litigation on family issues in Colombia; Natalia Ramírez-Bustamante -- 6. Same-Sex Relationships and Israeli Law; Ayelet Blecher-Prigat -- 7. Same-sex marriage in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Is it Possible?; Toni Holness -- 8. Legal status of same-sex couples within the framework of Turkish civil law; Başak Başoğlu.
  note: edited by Macarena Sáez.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Civil law
  subject:
    topic: Private international law
  subject:
    topic: Conflict of laws
  subject:
    topic: International law
  subject:
    topic: Comparative law
  subject:
    topic: Families
  subject:
    topic: Families
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law
  subject:
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Civil Law
  classification: K7000-7720.22
  classification: K7073-7078
  classification: 340.9
  classification: 340.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 42
  identifier: 9789401797740
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9774-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 150506
    record change date: 20151111061302.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9774-0