The institution will colonize same-sex relationships.
Adam Isaiah Green is an Assistant Professor of sociology at the University
of Toronto.
Green, Adam I. 2010. QUEER UNIONS: Same-Sex Spouses Marrying Tradition and Innovation Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(3): 399-436
Historical considerations aside, feminists critical of same-sex marriage forecast that the institution will colonize gays and lesbians, producing institutionalized gender-role differentiated marriages (Lehr 1999, Robson 1992; Walters 2001) and a new kind of same-sex, nuclear “patriarchal family” based in monogamy, parenthood, and the concept of partnersas property (Auchmuty 2004; Baird and Rosenbaum 1997; Butler
1996; Ettelbrick 1997; Lehr 1999; Polikoff 1993; Walters 2001).