'Loving Exclusions: How Marriage Breeds Sex/Gender, Race, Class and State/Nation Inequalities'.
These are thoughts on a talk given by V Spike Peterson (University of Arizona) in Social Sciences 11 th June Warwick University I think that discussions of marriage are very topical at the moment given the media attention on same sex marriages, and the long overdue changes taking place. I'm not certain about the links Peterson draws between the state and marriage. She herself said she was taking a bird's eye view and there are many complex processes involved. Peterson comes from a psychologist turned international relations viewpoint. ‘Hold onto your hats!’ Peterson began. By the time it had ended I felt entertained and informed about something I knew little about before. I also felt like I had just crammed for an exam. There was a lot of history to cover about the change of marriage overtime since ancient Greece to the present which I can’t do justice to here. Peterson’s presentation was not a critique on marriage, as she acknowledged the emotional investm...