caa a22 4500 388073829 CHVBK 20180307125155.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0829320100006104 doi S0829320100006104 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0829320100006104 Beaman Lori G. Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge Sexual Orientation and Legal Discourse: Legal Constructions of the "Normal” Family [Elektronische Daten] [Lori G. Beaman] Legal method, or the way in which legal claims are processed, is an integral component of the law's authority to include, exclude and deny claims and experiences. This paper explores the issue of sexual orientation and the legal construction of family as it emerges in the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Egan v. Canada. The analysis includes a detailed consideration of the ways in which the Supreme Court of Canada incorporates assumptions about the nature of family life as a relevant factor in its assessment of the meaning of the word "spouse” under the Old Age Security Act. The process by which notions of the normal family become legitimized through legal discourse is deconstructed using the work of Mary Jane Mossman and Michel Foucault. Mossman develops an analytic framework which illuminates the ways in which legal method works to preserve the power of law and the illusion that law produces "truth.” Michel Foucault considers both the ways in which knowledge is produced as truth, and its integral links to power. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1999 Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 173-202 0829-3201 14:2<173 1999 14 CLS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Beaman Lori G. Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 173-202 0829-3201 14:2<173 1999 14 CLS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge