TY - BOOK AU - Pierceson,Jason AU - Piatti-Crocker,Adriana AU - Schulenberg,Shawn ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Same-sex marriage in the Americas: policy innovation for same-sex relationships AV - HQ1034.A45 S26 2010 U1 - 306.84/8097 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Same-sex marriage KW - America KW - Gay couples KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Democracy, discursive frames, and same-sex unions : a cross-national analysis / Ahmed Khanani and Jean C. Robinson -- Constructing policy innovation in Argentina : from gender quotas to same-sex marriage / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- The Argentine supreme court and the construction of a constitutional protection of sexual minorities / Laura Saldivia -- Policy stability without policy : the battle for same-sex partnership recognition in Brazil / Shawn Schulenberg -- Same-sex relationship equality in Mexico / Genaro Lozano -- Deconstructing the backlash : same-sex marriage litigation and social change in the United States and Canada / Jason Pierceson -- Legal struggles and political resistance : same-sex marriage in Canada and the USA / Nancy Nicol and Miriam Smith -- The distinctive centrality of marriage in the United States / David Rayside -- Conclusion : juristocracy in the Americas? / Jason Pierceson; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=616230 ER -