Against Marriage
Against Marriage Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state. Chambers investigates the critique of marriage that has developed…
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Against Marriage
Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state. Chambers investigates the critique of marriage that has developed within feminist and liberal theory. Clare Chambers shows how feminist and liberal principles require creation of a marriage-free state: one in which private marriages, whether religious or secular, would have no legal status.Part One makes the case against marriage.
Chambers endorses the feminist view and argues, in contrast to recent egalitarian pro-marriage movements, that same-sex marriage is not enough to make marriage equal. Feminists have long argued that state-recognised marriage is a violation of equality. The egalitarian case against marriage is the most fundamental argument of Against Marriage.
But Chambers also argues that state-recognised marriage violates liberty,