Thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Universität, Bayreuth.

Thesis (doctoral)--La Salle University, 2005. / ProQuest dissertations and theses ; AAT 3227735. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-76)

Sweden is known to have one of the world's most generous parental insurances, both inlength and flexibility which has led to a high maternity rate and more women in paidwork. The political work on equality in Sweden has the goal that women and men shallhave the same power to shape society and their own lives. This has led to legislationaimed at getting fathers to stay more at home with their children. There has been plenty ofresearch on this subject so this study goes off the main track and looks at how legislationaround parenthood works for same-sex couples and if paternal leave is shared moreequally between same-sex parents than heterosexual parents. Discourse analysis of thelegislation and a survey with same-sex families followed by interviews indicate that samesexcouples share parental leave more equally than heterosexual couples. Legislationworks well for most same-sex families except for the process of related adoption. Reasonsfor more equal sharing of parental leave is hard to find but could depend on the fact thatsame-sex couples have been couples for a longer time, than heterosexual couples, beforedeciding to have children. Wage gap between men and women is a reason whyheterosexual couples do not share equally and it could be vice versa for same-sex couples.

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This thesis has investigated the effect of political influence, religious denomination, and level of equality regarding same-sex marriage legislation among the 28 member states of the European Union (EU). Furthermore, prior research has been related to the topics: same-sex marriage cases within the EU court, religious influence on approval of homosexuality, Conservative, Liberal, and Social democratic ideas regarding same-sex marriage and research about Feminism and equality. It has used a quantitative, comparative, and causal analysis to test the six hypotheses by using Cox Regression. The thesis has concluded that religious influence had a negativeeffect on the same-sex marriage legislation, disregarding denomination, and the level of social cohesion and equality had a positive effect on the legislation. Additionally, the result has shown that among the member states of the EU, the phenomenon of same-sex marriage was not a politically polarised, but that there were rather possible other variables not included in the analysis that could explain why half of the member states have legislated same-sex marriage. However, the predicted hazard rate of no legislation has increased and if the trend would continue there could possibly be a consensus among the members of the EU in the future.

Em matéria de casamento, a doutrina majoritária sustenta que as causas de nulidade devem ser textuais ou expressas, não se admitindo nulidades virtuais. Nesse ambiente, surgiu a teoria da inexistência, criada pela doutrina como forma de impugnação do casamento realizado na ausência de seus elementos fundamentais: consentimento, celebração, e dualidade de sexo. Tal teoria, já conhecida pelos canonistas, foi desenvolvida e divulgada após a Revolução Francesa, a partir dos estudos do jurista tedesco Zachariae von Linghental, a partir dos comentários de Napoleão Bonaparte junto ao Conselho de Estado francês, quando da elaboração do Código Civil francês de 1804. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, após dois séculos dos estudos de Zachariae, o impacto sofrido pela teoria da inexistência a partir da aprovação, por diversos países, do casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo. A partir surgiu o seguinte problema de pesquisa: existe o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo? A pesquisa percorreu as seguintes etapas: pesquisa doutrinária, com ênfase para a doutrina francesa do século XIX, e pesquisa jurisprudencial nacional. O principal resultado alcançado, após as leituras e pesquisas efetuadas, foi a conclusão de que, hoje, no Brasil, a existência jurídica do casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo é uma realidade. / On marriage, the majority doctrine holds that the grounds of invalidity should be textual or expressed, not admitting virtual nonentities. Consent, celebration, and duality of sex: In this environment, the lack of theory, created by the doctrine as a way of challenging the marriage in the absence of its key elements emerged. Such a theory, now known by the canonists, was developed and released after the French Revolution, from the studies of boredom jurist Zachariae von Linghental, from the comments of Napoleon Bonaparte by the French Council of State, when preparing the French Civil Code 1804. The objective of this work is to analyze, after two centuries of dissemination of studies Zachariae, the impact suffered by the theory of absence from the adoption by many countries, marriage between persons of the same sex. From the following research problem emerged: is there a marriage between persons of the same sex? The research has taken the following steps: doctrinal research, with emphasis on the French doctrine of the nineteenth century, and national case search. The main result achieved after the readings and performed research, was the finding that, today, in Brazil, the legal existence of marriage between persons of the same sex is a reality.

M.A. (Clinical Psychology) / Same-sex marriage is legally recognized in South Africa and thereby casting gay men as acceptable sexual citizens. Gay men who choose not to marry are subject to further sexual discrimination. To explore the constructions and social meanings of gay men in same-sex marriage, four self-identified gay men who had been married for at least a year were interviewed. Guided by a social constructionist epistemology, discourse analysis of these interviews exposed the effects of language in the shaping of identities. The analysis found that the married gay man positions himself as a ‘decent’ sexual subject and assumes the heterosexist ideology of marriage, which discriminates the single gay man as amoral and ‘deviant’. The married gay men used the discourses of healing, othering, protection, rights and playing straight that entrenched heteronormativity as a moral and sexual authority thereby reinforcing homophobic prejudice. Policy and socio-political recommendations were made to address the legal concept of equality from a Queer Theoretical perspective and for the training of psychologists to include critical engagement with gay subjectivity and the gay cultural world.

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model has been greatly intensified. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS searches for new physics entail looking for new particles by colliding protons together. Presented here is a search for a new form of quark matter called Vector-like Quarks (VLQ), which are hypothetical particles that are expected to have mass around a few TeV. VLQ can come in a variety of forms and can couple to their Standard Model (SM) quark counterparts, particularly to the third generation. They are necessary in several beyond the SM theories in order to solve the hierarchy problem. This search uses 36.1 fb−1of proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC from August 2015 to October 2016. Only events with two leptons of the same charge, or three leptons, plus b-jets and high missing transverse energy are considered in the main analysis. This signature is rarely produced in the SM, which means the backgrounds in this analysis are relatively low. This analysis is sensitive to specific predicted decay modes from pair production of an up-type VLQ with a charge of +2/3, T, an up-type VLQ with a charge of +5/3, T5/3, and a down-type quark with a charge of −1/3, B, as well as single production of T5/3. There is another theorized VLQ that this analysis is not sensitive to: B−4/3, due to its primary decay mode, which is unable to produce the final-state signature of interest. The results from this analysis suggest only a slight deviation of data from SM backgrounds reaching as high as 1.89σ, which does not indicate evidence for VLQ. A mostly frequentist statistical technique, called the CLS Method, is used to interpret the data and set limits on the T, B, and T5/3 signal models. Using this method, exclusion limits are set at the 95% confidence level, effectively excluding T mass below 0.98 TeV, T5/3 mass below 1.2 TeV, and B mass below 1.0 TeV, assuming singlet branching ratios. Also, branching ratio independent limits are set on the T and B VLQ.

Abstract This paper investigates the difficulties to translate a text containing phenomenological diction from English to Swedish. The source text comes from a journal that deals with medical motifs from a literary perspective called Literature and Medicine. The source text is an article called “The Other Side of Silence: Levinas, Medicine, and Literature” (2005) and was written by Craig Irvine. The translation difficulties have involved different aspects of phenomenology’s way with words. This analysis shows how these problems were dealt with by studying philosophical theories of translation, notably Philip Lewis’s model of abusive fidelity. These theories are presented by Jeremy Munday in Introducing Translation Studies (2008). The main problem with phenomenological diction is to choose the equivalent target language word or phrase in cases where there is no recognizable word or phrase in a dictionary. Here, several aspects like concrete or abstract and active or passive had to be considered in order to transfer the abuse that is present in the original correctly (Lewis). This aim was reached by using parallel texts and reasoning in accordance with theory. Thesauruses were also used, as well as dictionaries in cases where it was possible.   Key words: phenomenology, Levinas, experimental translation, the same, the other.

This socio-legal thesis explores the highly topical and underexplored issue of the legal regulation of gay and lesbian collaborative co-parenting in England & Wales, drawing on British Columbia (Canada) as a jurisdiction where this issue has been considered in more detail. These families involve reproductive collaborations between single or partnered lesbians and gay men where a child is conceived through assisted reproduction and each of the adults remain involved in the child’s life. Collaborative co-parenting can take a variety of forms, each of which is distinguishable from gamete donation or surrogacy because each of the adults continues to exercise some sort of parental role in relation to the child. Since the adoption of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, it has been possible for two female parents to appear on a child’s birth certificate following birth and for two male parents to be registered following a court parental order. The UK parliament has not, however, gone so far as to allow more than two parents to be legally recognised. This contrasts with the approach in British Columbia, which allows three parents to be registered on the birth certificate in cases of same-sex parenting involving assisted reproduction. In both Canada and the UK, however, courts have struggled to balance the interests of those involved in these collaborative co-parenting arrangements with varying degrees of success. This thesis combines detailed, comparative doctrinal analysis with a series of case studies of collaborative co-parenting families gathered from in-depth interviews with co-parents and legal professionals in Canada and the UK. In doing this, a typology of collaborative co-parenting families is advanced. The conclusion the thesis draws from this is that gay and lesbian collaborative co-parents are not an homogenous group and the law’s adherence, in England & Wales, to a one-size-fits-all, dyadic approach to parenthood based on the intimate couple does not adequately reflect the needs of the adults in this situation nor what is in the best interests of the child. One of the key findings to emerge from this study and the typology of collaborative co-parenting it advances is that the legal framework in England & Wales risks overlooking the interests of gay men who are involved in collaborative co-parenting in its attempt to protect women-led homonuclear families, even where this is not consistent with their agreed role in the child’s life. Therefore, a central recommendation is that any reform to this area of law should move away from a prescribed dyadic parenting model as the basis for regulating parent-child relationships in collaborative co-parenting families. Instead, it should require a careful consideration of pre-conception intentions, recorded where possible in a parenting solidarity agreement.