Tag Archives: marriage

diamonds don't enslave women, women enslave women

Part of why I decided to blog again is because I had a back­log of stuff I wanted to write about. Here’s the first of that stuff. Let’s call this the begin­ning of a “Fem­i­nism Fri­day” series. An Engage­ment Ring Is a Deposit on a Wife This piece was writ­ten in response to a recent New …

April 30, 2010 – 10:04 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in criticisms of feminism, feminism, law | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

love in the time of HIV/AIDS, for the innocent

I read this arti­cle on CNN the other day: Love in the time of HIV/AIDS . It’s about how HIV/AIDS patients are liv­ing longer lives and are increas­ingly able to do nor­mal stuff like get mar­ried (even to HIV neg­a­tive part­ners) and have bio­log­i­cal kids (who are very often HIV neg­a­tive). All this is great …

December 4, 2009 – 2:01 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in biomedical ethics, ethics, health care, saw it in the news | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

boycotting marriage

I am a het­ero­sex­ual woman who recently mar­ried a man. I also sup­port same-sex mar­riage. So, I feel pretty torn about tak­ing part in a valu­able social prac­tice that is sys­tem­at­i­cally, per­ni­ciously and delib­er­ately (thanks to DOMA and the like) dis­crim­i­na­tory. I have heard of het­ero­sex­ual cou­ples who are engag­ing in a mar­riage boy­cott of …

July 1, 2009 – 9:52 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, current events, ethics, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)