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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.

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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)

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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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