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III. Contesting Same-Sex Marriage in Talk-in-Interaction

Digital World Research Centre, School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK, v.land{at}surrey.ac.uk

Celia Kitzinger

Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK, cckl @york.ac.uk

Recent legal developments in the UK have reasserted the traditional nuclear family as the normative model and defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This article uses conversation analysis (CA) to analyse naturally occurring telephone conversations in the course of which lesbians, gay men and their heterosexual advocates negotiate the term `marriage' in relation to lesbian and gay relationships. The data were collected in the UK after same-sex marriage was legally available in some countries and in the run-up to the legal introduction of `civil partnerships' as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couples. Our analysis shows some of the interactional consequences of the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage in the UK.

Key Words: civil partnership • conversation analysis • gay marriage • gay men • lesbians, marriage • same-sex marriage • social exclusion • talk-in-interaction

Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 173-183 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353507076549


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