Subverting the fellowship of the wedding ring

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 393-410

  Parsons, Kate ^a  

^a WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84888984100     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2008.00432.x     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Although I do find solace in testimonials such as Rachel Fudge's "Why I Don't", in Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership, ed. Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis (Seattle: Seal Press, 2001), 39
2. and in the witty comebacks to the marriage question offered by Dorion Solot and Marshall Miller in Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple (New York: Marlowe and Company, 2002).
3. I also find inspiration in many of the interviews published in Suzanne Sherman's Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992).
4. Claudia Card, "Against Marriage and Motherhood", Hypatia 11, no. 3(1996):1-23.
5. see Susan Mendus, "Marital Faithfulness", Philosophy 59(1984):243-52;
6. and Gordon Graham, "Commitment and the Value of Marriage", in Person to Person, ed. George Graham and Hugh La Follette (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989), 199-212. For a variety of historical justifications of marriage
7. see E. J. Graff, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999).
8. See Patrick Hopkins, "Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities", in Free Spirits: Feminist Philosophers on Culture, ed. Kate Mehuron and Gary Percesepe (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), 422.
9. Ashton Applewhite, Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well (New York: Harper Perennial, 1997), 3.
10. Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis, eds., Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (Seattle: Seal Press, 2001).
11. Card, "Against Marriage and Motherhood"
12. See Paula L. Ettelbrick, "Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?" in The Columbia Reader: On Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics, ed. Larry Gross and James D. Woods (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 637-40.
13. More than ten years after the publication of her 1996 article, Card continues to bolster these claims: Claudia Card, "Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage", Hypatia 22, no. 1(2007):24-38.
14. Suzanna Danuta Walters, "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves", in Feminist Frontiers, Sixth Edition, ed. Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001), 291, author's emphasis.
15. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", in Women: Sex and Sexuality, ed. Catharine R. Stimpson and Ethel Spector Person (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 79.
16. Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies", in Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, ed. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988/1997), 291-99.
17. Anndee Hochman, "What We Call Each Other", in Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition, ed. Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003), 319.
18. Erik Baard, "Standing on Ceremony: Straight Couples Who Refuse to Marry Because Gays Can't", The Village Voice, December 10-16, 2003.
19. For details on these boycotts, see http://www.bandia.net/moonstone/ Marriage.html.
20. See also http://www.boycott-marriage.org/aboutus.html;
21. http://www.unmarried.org/marriage-boycott.html;
22. and Baard, "Standing on Ceremony"
23. Ettelbrick, "Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?" 640.
24. Butler, "State of the Union", 21.
25. Martha Ackelsberg and Judith Plaskow, "Why We're Not Getting Married", in Women: Images and Realities, Fourth Edition, ed. Amy Kessleman, Lily D. McNair, Nancy Schniedewind, and Suzanne Kelly (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 274.
26. Steve Vanderheiden, "Why the State Should Stay Out of the Wedding Chapel", Public Affairs Quarterly 13, no. 2(1999):176.