YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Contemporary Institution of Marriage
Essays 391 - 420
In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...
Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...
from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...
also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...
manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...
homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...
said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
of gay marriage actually found its way into the patchwork of society. "Lesbian behavior does not fit within that framework of pub...
that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...
without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...
by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...
ailing partner; they cant file joint tax returns; there are no survivors benefits for the one left behind (Quindlen, 1992). Quind...
love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...
and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...
However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...
in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...
individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...
old marriage and children are an important part of these newly created families. With so many complications, one has to ask why pe...
the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...
She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...