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is very much an equal reality in a marriage. Men and women are expected to treat each other respectfully, and to care about one an...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...

legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...

ailing partner; they cant file joint tax returns; there are no survivors benefits for the one left behind (Quindlen, 1992). Quind...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

todays marriages. Those factors are money and gender expectations. The literature has recognized the fact that gender roles in s...

toward a common goal. This is true whether the marital unit is attempting to raise children, to work out a budget, or to decide w...

old marriage and children are an important part of these newly created families. With so many complications, one has to ask why pe...

individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...

many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...

divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...

of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...

of gay marriage actually found its way into the patchwork of society. "Lesbian behavior does not fit within that framework of pub...

that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...