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dc.contributor.author | Santos, Ana Cristina | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14T14:50:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-14T14:50:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-137-00278-5 | pt |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-349-33126-0 | pt |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/79747 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Portugal is a Southern European, majority Catholic and post-dictatorship country that, somewhat surprisingly, has responded rapidly and radically to lesbian and gay movements’ demands, as well as to European Union (EU) policies on discrimination (Carneiro, 2009; Cascais, 2006; Santos, 2008). Despite the increasing recognition of same-sex rights, family law is still a place of contradiction, ambiguity and strong contestation. Drawing on doctoral research conducted between 2005 and 2008, in this chapter I start by offering an overview of social and political changes since the Portuguese revolution for democracy in 1974. I then examine the relationship between same-sex individual- and relational-claims and socio-legal obstacles and advances, highlighting the centrality of two major valuediscourses (Roseneil and Williams, 2004) amongst politicians: ‘the family’ and ‘the child’. I suggest that LGBT rights face a situation of ‘normative ambiguity’ (Krieger, 2003) – on the one hand, the Portuguese Constitution provides protection from (individual) discrimination; on the other hand, specific laws mirror the heteronormative value-discourses of the lawmaker, preserving the law as a site of (relational) discrimination. In the last section of the chapter I explore how legal change was possible despite the tenacity of such dominant cultural value-discourses. In this regard the role of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement has been particularly significant, as the approval of same-sex marriage in 2010 illustrates. | pt |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | pt |
dc.rights | closedAccess | pt |
dc.title | The politics of sexuality in Portugal: confronting tradition, enacting change | pt |
dc.type | bookPart | pt |
degois.publication.firstPage | 168 | pt |
degois.publication.lastPage | 185 | pt |
degois.publication.location | Basingstoke | pt |
degois.publication.title | Sexualities: past reflections, future directions | pt |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.palgrave.com/fr/book/9780230290099# | pt |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/9781137002785 | pt |
dc.date.embargo | 2012-01-01 | * |
dc.date.periodoembargo | 0 | pt |
item.fulltext | Com Texto completo | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | bookPart | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.grantfulltext | reserved | - |
crisitem.author.researchunit | CES – Centre for Social Studies | - |
crisitem.author.parentresearchunit | University of Coimbra | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-9597-7150 | - |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Livros e Capítulos de Livros |
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