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  • Course Number / Code:
  • SP.691 (Fall 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Special Programs 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Renee Bergland
    Prof. Leonard Buckle
    Prof. Suzann Thomas-Buckle 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • SP.691 Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture



    Fall 2007




    Course Highlights




    SP.691 Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture



    Fall 2007


    The back of of a man's shirt featuring stencils of two same-sex couples and the message Marriage Equality Now.
    From the marriage equality march/rally in Seattle, Washington. (Image courtesy of Michael Hanscom [djwudi].)


    Course Description


    Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the context of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, the meaning of marriage itself demands serious re-examination. This course will discuss history, literature, film, and legal scholarship, making use of cross-cultural, sociological, anthropological, and many other theoretical approaches to the marriage question from 1630 to the present. As it turns out, sex, marriage, and the family have never been stable institutions; to the contrary, they have continued to function as flash points for the very social and cultural questions that are central to gender studies scholarship.

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    Renee Bergland, Leonard Buckle, and Suzann Thomas-Buckle, course materials for SP.691 Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture, Fall 2007. MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Downloaded on [DD Month YYYY].

     

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