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CONTENTS
Prologue: Cardiff, 1980
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Introduction: research questions and structure of the thesis
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1. Building a context for legal recognition for same-sex couples the UK,
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Canada and California
2. Reading marriage, homosexuality and same-sex couple relationships
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3. Erving Goffman’s Stigma as an evaluative framework for marriage
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and civil partnership
4. Methodological considerations: theory and practice
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5. For the first thirty-two years of my life I was a criminal:
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The impact of recognition on same-sex couple relationships
6. You get two hundred people to come out, just for two queers:
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The impact of recognition within couples’ social networks
7. We’re treated that way now:
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The impact of recognition beyond couples’ social networks
8. I don’t think I’m being paranoid, but they ARE out to get me:
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The Proposition 8 referendum in California as an exercise in
re-stigmatising lesbian and gay couples
9. Conclusion: evaluating civil partnerships in the UK and same-sex
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marriage in Canada and California
Epilogue: Toronto, 2010
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Annexes
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