| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the lesbian marriages. First of all, marriage is embedded within heterosexuality, property relations, dependence, monogamy and traditional parenthood, all of which affect women in a particularly debilitating way. Legal wedding ceremonies, and the resulting "marriage, resonate with unobstructed ties to the state. Nineteenth century bourgeois trends made marriage not only a convenience but a necessity. Heterosexuality and the tradition at nuclear family is now all about property, all about economic and political arrange merits: the shared income, the shared apartment, "charters to rights of domicile and land use," as it were. What already should be a relic of heterosexuality is fast emerging as contested ground for queers and it bothers the author. |
