Citation

Brook H. Fem. Theor. 2002; 3(1): 45-66.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1460012002003001065

PMID

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Abstract

This article argues that although marriage has been a historically productive and important site of feminist inquiry, feminist theorizations of the institution of marriage have reached something of a stalemate. Moreover, contemporary debates on the merits of same-sex marriage risk disarming feminist marriage critiques while simultaneously replicating their limitations. This does not mean, however, that marriage should be evacuated as an arena of feminist concern; rather, new ways of thinking about politics, subjectivities, sexualities and gender should be brought to bear against our understandings of what contemporary marriage is and does.