Reconcilable differences: what it would take for marriage and feminism to say "I do". (Cover Story).(Statistical Data Included)(Cover Story)
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Gornick, Janet C.
In the true marriage relation the independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.
--LUCRETIA MOTT (1793-1880)
FEMINISTS HAVE LONG BEEN QUEASY ABOUT MARRIAGE, but our queasiness is not about marriage per se; it concerns the way marriage has been practiced. The religious right paints feminists as opposed to marriage and all that goes with it: heterosexuality, men, family, love, caring, and children. Campaigning against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly flatly warned that "feminists hate men, ...
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