Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture
WGS.640 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Fall 2007
Prof. Leonard Buckle, Prof. Renee Bergland, Prof. Suzann Thomas-Buckle
Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the context of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, the meaning of marriage itself demands serious re-examination. This course will discuss history, literature, film, and legal scholarship, making use of cross-cultural, sociological, anthropological, and many other theoretical approaches to the marriage question from 1630 to the present. As it turns out,…
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Prof. Leonard Buckle, Prof. Renee Bergland, Prof. Suzann Thomas-Buckle. WGS.640 Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture. Fall 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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