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

Joan Callahan

Hypatia 24 (1):70-80 (2009)

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(1 other version)Against Marriage and Motherhood.Claudia Card - 1996 - Hypatia 11 (3):1 - 23.details This essay argues that current advocacy of lesbian and gay rights to legal marriage and parenthood insufficiently criticizes both marriage and motherhood as they are currently practiced and structured by Northern legal institutions. Instead we would do better not to let the State define our intimate unions and parenting would be improved if the power presently concentrated in the hands of one or two guardians were diluted and distributed through an appropriately concerned community. Download Export citation Bookmark 48 citations
The Lesbian June Cleaver: Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering.Bonnie Mann - 2007 - Hypatia 22 (1):149-165.details For many of us, entry into motherhood involves an ambiguous visibility and intelligibility, where our acceptance into mainstream spaces as mothers entails a loss of lesbian difference. Mann explores this loss using the work of two philosophers of lesbian difference, Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. She argues that the figure of the lesbian mother is deployed on a broad cultural scale to reinvigorate and renaturaUze the myth of the happy, natural, heterosexual mother. Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Gay Marriage: An American and Feminist Dilemma.Ann Ferguson - 2007 - Hypatia 22 (1):39-57.details Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay discusses the feminist dilemma of whether to support gay marriage to promote these individual civil rights or whether to critique marriage as a part of the patriarchal system that oppresses women. Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights.Richard D. Mohr - 2007 - Hypatia 22 (1):243-246.details Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage.Claudia Card - 2007 - Hypatia 22 (1):24-38.details Although the exclusion of LGBTs from the rites and rights of marriage is arbitrary and unjust, the legal institution of marriage is itself so riddled with injustice that it would be better to create alternative forms of durable intimate partnership that do not invoke the power of the state. Card's essay develops a case for this position, taking up an injustice sufficiently serious to constitute an evil: the sheltering of domestic violence. Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations

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