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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman. Representative Works. Anarchism and Other Essays The Social Significance of Modern Drama My Disillusionment in Russia Living My Life The Traffic in women and Other Essays on Feminism. Marriage and Love. Published in 1910 Marriage and love have nothing in common

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Emma Goldman

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  1. Emma Goldman

  2. Representative Works • Anarchism and Other Essays • The Social Significance of Modern Drama • My Disillusionment in Russia • Living My Life • The Traffic in women and Other Essays on Feminism

  3. Marriage and Love • Published in 1910 • Marriage and love have nothing in common • If there is love, it survives despite marriage, not because of it • Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement • Women kept ignorant of sex until marriage • If women do explore sex before marriage, she is deemed unworthy of marriage

  4. Marriage and Love • If women do work, many look at their work as transitory (they will leave work when they marry and have children) • The institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman, an absolute dependent • It incapacitates her for life’s struggle, annihilates her social consciousness, paralyzes her imagination • Is there something to be learned from Emma Goldman today? How is marriage viewed today?

  5. Interesting Statistics to Consider • For all U.S. adults, 57 percent were married in 2000, but that dropped to 52 percent in 2009 (US Census) • Rate of married U.S. adults ages 25-34 dropped by 10 percent in the last 10 years (US Census) • Marriage rate: 6.8 per 1,000 total population (CDC 2009) • Divorce rate: 3.4 per 1,000 population (CDC 2009)

  6. Superwoman Syndrome • Arange of physical, psychological, and interpersonal stress symptoms experienced by a woman who attempts to perform perfectly in multiple or conflicting roles • Roles: spouse, mother, employee, caretaker for aging parents, friend • Work (40+ hours a week), home (cleaning, shopping, cooking, laundry, bill paying, etc.), children (primary caregiving, carpooling, scheduling doctor appointments, etc.), aging parents (arranging or providing long term care, home maintenance, finances), spouse and friends (time spent nurturing these relationships)

  7. How are we coping today? • 1 in 10 Americans over age 12 is taking antidepressants (CDC 2011) • 1 in 4 American women age 40-59 is taking antidepressants (CDC 2011) • Between 2005 - 2009, ER visits for attempted overdoses by women taking prescriptions for anxiety or insomnia rose 56% (SAMHSA) • ER visits for women taking prescription pain relievers rose 30% during that same time period (67% for women taking hydrocodone, and 210% for women taking oxycodone) (SAMHSA)

  8. Lisa Miya-Jervis

  9. Representative Works • Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating • Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (co-editor) • Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (co-editor)

  10. Who Wants to Marry a Feminist? • To reject marriage because of its history is to give in to that history • Decision to marry or not marry is an emotional one • She wants to help forge a new vision of what marriage is • So what is that vision? What is marriage today, and what can it become?

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