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A white wedding? : the racial politics of same-sex marriage in Canada by Suzanne Judith Lenon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A white wedding? : the racial politics of same-sex marriage in Canada about?

In A White Wedding? The Racial Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, I examine the inter-locking relations of power that constitute the lesbian/gay subject recognized by the Canadian nation-state as deserving of access to civil marriage. Through analysis of legal documents, Parliamentary and Senate debates, and interviews with lawyers, I argue that this lesbian/gay subject achieves intelligibility in the law by trading in on and shoring up the terms of racialized neo-liberal citizenship. I also argue that the victory of same-sex marriage is implicated in reproducing and securing a racialized Canadian national identity as well as a racialized civilizational logic, where "gay rights" are the newest manifestation of the modernity of the "West" in a post-9/11 historical context. By centring a critical race/queer conceptual framework, this research project follows the discursive practices of respectability, freedom and civility that circulate both widely and deeply in this legal struggle. I contend that in order to successfully shed its historical markers of degeneracy, the lesbian/gay subject must be constituted not as a sexed citizen but rather as a neoliberal citizen, one who is intimately

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Author

Suzanne Judith Lenon

Publisher

Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780494580356

Category

nonfiction