Intersectionality in California’s Same-Sex Marriage Battles

A Complex Proposition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6340428
AutoresNancy D Wadsworth (0000-0002-9715-7981, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA,, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume64
Fascículo1
Páginas200-216
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1065912910376386
OpenAlexW2066865623
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas33

This article employs what the author calls “foundational” intersectional analysis to investigate the coalitional and rhetorical strategies mobilized by Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative in California designed to eliminate the right of same-sex marriage. The author argues that foundational intersectionality is the only method that sufficiently contextualizes the historical legacies constructing the political institution of marriage and that this method must incorporate the factor of religion, because religion is central to the politics of “moral values.” The first part of the article differentiates foundational intersectionality from identity intersectionality as a framework. The author then sketches how marriage is a political institution constructed in the United States through the simultaneous interactions of gender, sexuality, race, and religion. The second part of the article applies the framework to an empirical analysis of four discursive strategies employed by pro— and anti—same-sex marriage forces in California in order to “link their fate,” or sense of political alliance, to other groups

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