Marriage and Love

Emma Goldman

• Verlag: Perlego
• Jahr: 2007
• ISBN:
  9700000020715
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Marriage & Family Sociology

It's said that well-behaved women rarely make history, and that's certainly true in the case of Emma Goldman, famed activist, anarchist, and women's rights advocate. In this essay, Goldman takes on the misogyny and oppression that were the lot of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and offers a series of elegant critiques of romantic love and the institution of marriage.

Marriage and Love

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EMMA GOLDMAN

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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ALEXANDER BERKMAN

A Unique Contribution to Socio-Psychological Literature

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY REPRESENTS THREE PHASES:

1. The Revolutionary Awakening and its Toll—The Attentat
2. The Allegheny Penitentiary: Fourteen Years in Purgatory
3. The Resurrection and After

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Marriage and Love

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EMMA GOLDMAN

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Price Ten Cents

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MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION

210 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK

1911

MARRIAGE AND LOVE

The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.

Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the result of love. Not, however, because love could assert itself only in marriage; much rather is it because few people can completely outgrow a convention. There are today large numbers of men and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it for the sake of public opinion. At any rate, while it is true that some marriages are based on love, and while it is equally true that in some cases love continues in married life, I maintain that it does so regardless of marriage, and not because of it.

On the other hand, it is utterly false that love results from marriage. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Certainly the growing-used to each other is far away from the spontaneity, the intensity, and beauty of love, without which the intimacy of marriage must prove degrading to both the woman and the man.

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pa...