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Card, Claudia. Against Marriage and Motherhood
1996, Hypatia 11 (3):1 - 23.
Topics: Applied Ethics; Culture; Freedom and Rights; Gender Sex and Sexuality; Law and Public Policy; Personal and Social Identity
Keywords: ethics; gay rights; lesbian rights; marriage; motherhood; parenting
Traditions: Analytic; Critical; North American
Languages: English
Figures: Claudia Card

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Added by: Clotilde Torregrossa, Contributed by: Carla Rodriguez

Abstract: 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.

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