Marriage
The Dream That Refuses to Die
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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A number of books defending traditional marriage (and opposing same-sex marriage) have been published recently, but most of these base their positions on religion or natural law. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, on the other hand, founds her position on a historical and communal conception of marriage, and sees the move to same-sex marriage as just another symptom of the radical conceptual change in marriage brought on by modernity and romanticism. Marriage is a historically founded defense of traditional marriage as a social bond rather than mere personal choice from one of America’s most celebrated historians. |