Women's Studies 2160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meritocracy, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Zoophilia

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2160A/B
• Professor: Prof

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Intimate relations lecture 2: marriage and the colonial. Guest lecturer: dr. chris roulston chair of graduate studies in women"s studies and feminist research. Marriage, space and intimacy in the early modern period (1700-1900) There is one institution that is very old and that has always been connected with initimacy: no existing culture without marriage, been around forever and not going anywhere. Marriage 2 people in an intimate relationship connected to that public form of expression (public expression of a private relationship: from french marier, 1. Legal relationship between spouses (historically between a man and a woman: 2. Union of two things (can just mean things not people: 4. In cards, declaration of king and queen of the same suit. Marriage implies bringing together this bringing together is usually of opposites (joining of opposites or contrasts: eg. William blakes poem : the marriage of heaven and hell. Predominantly, however, it is the bringing together of man and woman.