Marriage
In Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism, Lauren Rosewarne’s details her own personal struggles as a willing participant in an illicit relationship that resulted in another woman's devastation, as well as her own. It is a political look at the motivations that fuel situations of betrayal and the justifications one provides oneself from the inside.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor September 17, 2009 - 10:00am
I have to give kudos to Michael Gerson for stating in a recent Washington Post column that abstinence-only-until-marriage might be a "nice idea" for those who see these issues in religious or ideological terms, but is not feasible as a social expectation.
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The more evidence shoved in our faces that marriage just doesn't work as well as we want, the more we bury our heads in the fantasy.
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There was no way a two-hour film version of "Sex and the City" would live up to the complexity of the six-series-long show. But did half the characters need to be so flat, and the show's attempt at racial diversity such a misfire?
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Dowry practices in India drive women's limited access to education and self-determination.
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In India, women -- viewed as either the husband's or father's property -- cannot make decisions about their own marriages. But a new decision made by Muslim bodies and Islamic scholars says that under Sharia law, a woman cannot be married against her will.
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By Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America October 29, 2007 - 8:02am
Sex within marriage is not a right -- it is something that is consented to even though vows have been taken.
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