'For better or worse?' : lesbian and gay marriage

V. Clarke, S. Finlay, S. Wilkinson

Contents:- I. Why Reach for the Moon? Because the Stars aren_t Enough / Catherine Donovan.- II. _Marriage-Like_ or Married? Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Partnership and Migration / Martin Holt.- III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage / Maria Bevacqua.- IV. Civil Partnerships: A New Couple_s Conversation / Elizabeth Peel and Rosie Harding.- V. Same-Sex Marriage under Capricorn_s Tropic / Roque Martin Saavedra.- VI. in the Meantime: Same-Sex Ceremonies in the Absence of Legal Recognition / Kathleen Liddle and Becky J. Liddle.- VII. Love and the Lexicon of Marriage / Kevin Bourassa.- Mars and Venus Collide: A Discursive Analysis of Marital Self-Help Psychology / Mary Crawford.- Just Married? Adversarial Divorce and the Conjugal Body Politic / Heather Brook.- Same-Sex Marriage Revived: Feminist Critique and Legal Strategy / Rosemary Auchmuty.- The Re-Branding of Marriage: Why We Got Married Instead of Registering a Civil Partnership / Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson.- The Personal Is Still Political: Heterosexuality, Feminism and Monogamy / Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott.- Same-Sex Partnerships / Jeffrey Weeks.- Heart-Strings and Purse-Strings: Money in Heterosexual Marriage / Carole Burgoyne.- Same-Sex Marriage: Contrasting Perspectives among Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Christians / Andrew K.T. Yip.- A Marriage of Convenience: Anarchism, Marriage and Borders / J. Shantz.- Public Health Consequences of the Defense of Marriage Act for Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Suicidality, Behavioral Difficulties, and Psychiatric Treatment / Robin M. Mathy and Barbara A. Lehmann.