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"No one here is more than anyone else" Equality and families in the debate on "equal marriage" in Uruguay

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  • Diego Sempol Universidad de la República
No. 09 (2018): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2018.50549

Abstract

In 2013, Uruguay became the second Latin American country to approve an "equal marriage" law - a reform of the Civil Code which allowed, among other things, same sex / gender couples to marry. This article seeks to explore, from a historical perspective, the conditions that facilitated this recognition of rights, as well as to analyze the notions of family that came into play during the social debate around the bill. It seeks to discuss the theoretical views that consider this type of reform as an unnecessary concession to heteronormativity, through the contextualized study of a case which shows how this change allowed to reverse historical forms of subordination through a democratizing normalization.

Keywords:

Equal marriage, family, sexual diversity, Uruguay

Author Biography

Diego Sempol, Universidad de la República

Egresado del Instituto Profesores Artigas en la especialidad de Historia, realizó un posgrado en Historia Contemporánea en la Universidad del CLAEH y es doctor en Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento IDES (Argentina). Es docente e investigador del Departamento de Ciencia Política, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) y nivel I del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores

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Sempol, D. (2018). "No one here is more than anyone else" Equality and families in the debate on "equal marriage" in Uruguay. Revista Punto Género, (09), pp 65 – 84. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2018.50549
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