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Demands of Care and Dilemmas of Freedom: What We Really Ought to Be Worried About

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2010

Tamara Metz
Tamara Metz
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Reed College
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So long as the state defines, confers, and uses marital status as a vehicle for protecting and supporting associations of intimate caregivers, also known as families, it must offer the status to same-sex intimate caregiving couples. A commitment to equal treatment before the law demands it. Period.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 120 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2010

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