Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Miscegenation, Not About Love, Absolute Difference

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Marriage, space and intimacy in the early modern period, 1700-1900. Intro: there is one institution that is very old and that has always been connected with intimacy, marriage, some aspects of marriage have remained the same, some have changed over time. Definitions of marriage: marriage (french word marier, legal relationship between spouses, intimate union, union of two things, in cards, declaration of king and queen of the same suit. Conceptual category: marriage implies a (cid:494)bringing together(cid:495, this (cid:494)bringing together(cid:495) is usually of (cid:494)opposites(cid:495, william blakes poem the marriage of heaven and hell. If marriage was not about love, then what: essentially a public institution. It was an economic as well as a sexual alliance. It was not based on choice or notions of freedom. In the 19th century and early 2oth century us miscegenation laws prohibited. African-american from marrying causation americans: until recently in canada two people of the same sex could not legally marry (2005)