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Marriage, Autonomy, and the Feminine Protest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Debra B. Bergoffen
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Abstract

This paper may be read as a reclamation project. It argues, with Simone de Beauvoir, that patriarchal marriage is both a perversion of the meaning of the couple and an institution in transition. Parting from those who have given up on marriage, I identify marriage as existing at the intersection of the ethical and the political and argue that whether or not one chooses marriage, feminists ought not abandon marriage as an institution.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 14 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir , Fall 1999 , pp. 18 - 35
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Copyright © 1999 by Hypatia, Inc.

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