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Same-Sex Marriage: Why It Matters—At Least for Now

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joan Callahan
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Abstract

This paper addresses the progressive, feminist critique of same-sex marriage as articulated by Claudia Card. Although agreeing with Card that the institution of marriage as we know it is profoundly morally flawed in its origins and effects, Callahan disagrees with Card's suggestion that queer activists in the United States should not be working for the inclusion of same-sex couples in the institution.

Type
Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card , Winter 2009 , pp. 70 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Joan Callahan

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