The purpose of this paper is to explore the politics of same-sex marriages. First, I pointed out that the modern family, based on the heterosexual norm, marginalizes homosexuals, and deprives them of opportu-nities to form families. Second, I indicated that the discourse that the dissolution of the marriage system recognizes the diversity presupposes the outside of power relations. Through analysis of the arguments which defend the family system, I argued the following three points. First, the refusal of same-sex marriages based on the definition of marriage conceals that the law employs the specified definition arbitrarily. Second, the refusal based on reproduction is on the grounds that same-sex couples don' t produce normative heterosexual families and the gender norm, therefore the demand for same-sex marriages protests against the relation of families, normative heterosexuality, and the gender norm. Third, the demand for same-sex marriages expounds the problems of the frame work of public, pri-vate matters based on the heterosexual norm in modern society.
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Kazama, T. (2003). The politics of same-sex marriages. Kazoku Syakaigaku Kenkyu, 14(2), 32–42. https://doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.14.32
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