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Quels sont les avantages et les inconvénients d'une reconnaissance publique des couples homosexuels ? La question se pose sur les plans juridiques et social, comme l'ont montré les débats autour du PACS en France, mais elle concerne aussi les Eglises et les chrétiens.
Faut-il reconnaître juridiquement les unions entre homosexuels ? Concubinage, Pacs ou mariage : quelle forme légale donner à ces couples ? Les modèles étrangers peuvent-ils servir de référence ? Quelles conséquences l'évolution du droit peut-elle avoir sur la famille et la société en général ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions qui sont abordées dans cet ouvrage ; il retrace l'histoire ancienne ou plus récente de la reconnaissance sociale des unions entre personnes de même sexe et présente les diverses formes légales qu'elles prennent aujourd'hui en France comme dans d'autres pays d'Europe ou d'Amérique.
This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses concentrate on the link between registration of same-sex marriages and same-sex parenting with a detailed focus on Spain. The sociological chapters in this book, based upon qualitative surveys in France, Iceland and Italy, underline how the importance of the legal structure influenced the daily life of homosexual families. As such this book is an interesting read to lawyers, demographers, sociologists, behavioural scientists, and all those working in the field.
The rise in individualism and the growing liberalism of family law may be seen as potential threats to the family as a unit. Currently, defenders of traditional family models are being forced to accept a more fluid definition of family as an intrinsic heterogeneous unit. Central to this book is the idea that the family, as a social unit around which society is structured, still plays a pivotal role in North America. States, courts, and political parties have had to address the major mutations of the family landscape in the last decades. The family is instrumental in reorganizing communities in migration contexts, and is a key component of political strategies. The way family is staged in the...
In one stimulating source this successful text provides a rigorous analysis of the political, economic and social developments in post-war France. The analysis is supported by specially selected French language texts and exercises. This text is suitable for undergraduate students of French (especially within a languages, social science, or business course) and for courses in French Studies and European Studies.
La discrimination à l’encontre des personnes LGBTI reste omniprésente, et représente un coût colossal. Ce rapport dresse un panorama complet des législations visant à assurer l’égalité de traitement des personnes LGBTI dans les pays de l’OCDE, et des mesures complémentaires propres à favoriser cette évolution.
In global politics, women's bodies are policed, objectified, surveilled, and feared, with particular attention paid to both their met or unmet procreative potential. While the significance of motherhood varies across cultures, it is, as this book argues, connected not just to gender and sexuality, but also to religion and nationality. Reproduction is central to the flourishing of any nation or culture, and therefore motherhood is a major signifier of women's relationship to the state. This is so much the case that states enact laws about which women can bear children and have supported sterilization efforts in cases where women are not deemed appropriate bearers of the nation. States also le...