LGBT Desires in Family Land: Parenting in Iceland, from Social Acceptance to Social Pressure
More than 20 years ago, Iceland opened civil union to same-sex couples with its confirmed partnership law (staðfest samvist, 1996). Since then, the country has attained a high level of equality between same-sex and different-sex couples in the domain of family law, and the law has strong provisions...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02512474v1 2023-05-15T16:46:03+02:00 LGBT Desires in Family Land: Parenting in Iceland, from Social Acceptance to Social Pressure Digoix, Marie Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) European Project: 320116,EC:FP7:SSH,FP7-SSH-2012-1,FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES(2013) 2020 https://hal.science/hal-02512474 https://hal.science/hal-02512474/document https://hal.science/hal-02512474/file/Digoix2020_Chapter_LGBTDesiresInFamilyLandParenti.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 en eng HAL CCSD Springer International Publishing info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/320116/EU/Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations/FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES ISBN: 978-3-030-37054-1 hal-02512474 https://hal.science/hal-02512474 https://hal.science/hal-02512474/document https://hal.science/hal-02512474/file/Digoix2020_Chapter_LGBTDesiresInFamilyLandParenti.pdf doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe https://hal.science/hal-02512474 Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe, 24, Springer International Publishing, pp.117-154, 2020, European Studies of Population, 978-3-030-37054-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6⟩ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 Assisted reproduction techniques Family policies Heteronormativity Iceland LGBT rights Same-sex parenthood [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Book sections 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 2023-01-29T00:28:13Z More than 20 years ago, Iceland opened civil union to same-sex couples with its confirmed partnership law (staðfest samvist, 1996). Since then, the country has attained a high level of equality between same-sex and different-sex couples in the domain of family law, and the law has strong provisions against discrimination toward LGBT people. The increasing visibility and acceptance of LGBT people is raising questions about the social process of integration. LGBT people are confronted with heterosexual norms, a confrontation that is difficult to bypass. In this context, some may find that they are losing their identity. Iceland is a familialist society, and a key entry into the social acceptance of homosexuality has been through marriage and parenting. There is a clear gender gap in family-making. Lesbians have access to ART whereas adoption is scarcely available and surrogacy still illegal, reducing access to parenthood for gay men. However, in Iceland’s small LGBT community, parenting desire has increasingly become a reality for both females and males. Based on a survey consisting of 30 interviews, the paper studies how parenthood meets a wide range of personal desires, but also how it has become a normative pressure. Book Part Iceland Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 117 154 |
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More than 20 years ago, Iceland opened civil union to same-sex couples with its confirmed partnership law (staðfest samvist, 1996). Since then, the country has attained a high level of equality between same-sex and different-sex couples in the domain of family law, and the law has strong provisions against discrimination toward LGBT people. The increasing visibility and acceptance of LGBT people is raising questions about the social process of integration. LGBT people are confronted with heterosexual norms, a confrontation that is difficult to bypass. In this context, some may find that they are losing their identity. Iceland is a familialist society, and a key entry into the social acceptance of homosexuality has been through marriage and parenting. There is a clear gender gap in family-making. Lesbians have access to ART whereas adoption is scarcely available and surrogacy still illegal, reducing access to parenthood for gay men. However, in Iceland’s small LGBT community, parenting desire has increasingly become a reality for both females and males. Based on a survey consisting of 30 interviews, the paper studies how parenthood meets a wide range of personal desires, but also how it has become a normative pressure. |
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Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe https://hal.science/hal-02512474 Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe, 24, Springer International Publishing, pp.117-154, 2020, European Studies of Population, 978-3-030-37054-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6⟩ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_6 |
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