WGS250H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Virginity
13 Apr 2014
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What causes might lead to these changes? economic changes. Women"s movement into paid worked equality seeking movements changes to social policy changes in social norms and expectations. Despite changes , normalized constructs of family and marriage still exist. Wedding ceremony often associated with religion ex christian church patriarchal history. Cultural homogeneity capitalist nature of the wedding industry. White symbolizes purity, and virginity. giving away the bride- symbolic of a monetary peace offering pay off debt or buy way into higher social staus today, symbolic as fathers blessing on the new couple. Marriage commissioners are the ,ain officiates of civil marriages. Marriage commissioners must perform weddings regardless of there religious beilfs. Saskatchewan court of appeal, court ruled appeal, require marriage commsison to perfrom civil marriages for all couples. Some argue polygamy is harmful for women: child brides, coerced marriage, teen bride trafiiciking, teen mothers, sexual exploitation. Equality and relationship with gender is expressed differently.
