Información General

• Autores: Macarena Sáez Torres (coord.)
• Editores: Springer Holanda
• Año de publicación: 2015
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9789401797733
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Resumen

• 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.

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Listado de artículos

• • And the story comes to an end: the constitutionality of same-sex marriages in Spain

    Jose María Lorenzo Villaverde

    págs. 13-48

    

  • Same-sex unions in Mexico: between text and doctrine

    Estefanía Vela Barba

    págs. 49-83

    

  • Same-Sex marriage in the United States

    Macarena Sáez Torres

    págs. 85-104

    

  • Marriage between two, changing and unchanging concepts of family: the case of LGBTI rights litigation on family issues in Colombia

    Natalia Ramírez Bustamante

    págs. 105-130

    

  • Same-Sex relationships and Israeli Law

    Ayelet Blecher Prigat

    págs. 131-161

    

  • Same-Sex Marriage in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Is it Possible?

    Toni Holness

    págs. 163-188

    

  • Legal status of same-sex couples within the framework of turkish family law

    Basak Basoglu

    págs. 189-208