The Feminist Review

Christie Church’s article “Feminism Keeps My Marriage Together” is conversational and honest. I think this is a perfect example of a story being both personal and relevant. She shares particularities that make this her story, but has enough self-awareness to make her own story more widely relevant. I also appreciate that she names the privilege she and her husband have to be legally married.

The article points to some important concepts for anyone attempting to work, act, love or create with another gender. My favorite quote: “Intimacy just isn’t possible under patriarchy.”

This approach to patriarchy is wonderfully simple and inviting - we all want intimacy, and we want it across gender lines, so let’s take patriarchy on!

Filed under: articles on March 31st, 2008 by Anna Lisa