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Against Marriage and Motherhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Claudia Card
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Abstract

This essay argues that current advocacy of lesbian and gay rights to legal marriage and parenthood insufficiently criticizes both marriage and motherhood as they are currently practiced and structured by Northern legal institutions. Instead we would do better not to let the State define our intimate unions and parenting would be improved if the power presently concentrated in the hands of one or two guardians were diluted and distributed through an appropriately concerned community.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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