Traditional Marriage: An Outmoded Institution Kirsten Uhler, Cogitations, May 5, 2009 Kirsten wrote a brilliant paper on marriage for the sociology course in which she is currently enrolled. None of the “benefits” of marriage require marriage. Children can be conceived and reared and sexual satisfaction can be had without any legal contract or public vows […]
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A New Progressive Saudi Arabia
A little more decorum, please The Economist, March 21, 2009, pg49 Wow, men and women in Saudi Arabia are now practically equal. Congratulations on the progress. Thank Allah. Welcome to the twenty-first century. In a much-heralded breakthrough, Saudi Arabia recently elevated a woman to the post of deputy minister of education. But she cannot drive […]
What’s in a Name?
For most of human history men have ruled over women. Even in the civilized West women were the property of their husbands up and through the nineteenth century. It took until the twentieth century for the United States to grant women the right to vote. We have come a long way in a very short […]