Gendered Relations of Power in Ireland’s Same-Sex Marriage Referendum: Panti Bliss and the Lesbians Caught in the “Crossfire”
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Aug 24, 2016
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Sexuality, Marriage, Same-sex marriage, Politics
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This article employs Kath Weston’s critiques of performance theory (2002) to analyze the historical Irish gendered relations apparent in the 2015 passing of Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum.
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Wheeler, Autumn. 2016. “Gendered Relations of Power in Ireland’s Same-Sex Marriage Referendum: Panti Bliss and the Lesbians Caught in the ‘Crossfire’”. Radicle: Reed Anthropology Review 1 (1). https://radiclejournal.org/index.php/rrar/article/view/8.
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