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Does Marriage Require a Head? Some Historical Arguments∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linda A. Bell
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Abstract

Are hierarchies necessary in human relationships? This issue is a central one for feminist theory, and there is a continuing need to rethink relationships and to envision what they might be like without any sort of dominance of some over others. To aid this process of envisioning alternatives, this paper examines more closely the way one of the most intimate of hierarchies — marriage — has been argued and envisioned historically.

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Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 1: Special Issue: The History of Women in Philosophy , Spring 1989 , pp. 139 - 154
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Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

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For his perceptive readings of an earlier draft of this paper and for his many helpful suggestions and comments, I am grateful to Albert C. Skaggs.

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