%0 Journal Article
%T Rethinking the Secular in Feminist Marriage Debates
%A Ada S. Jaarsma
%J Studies in Social Justice
%D 2010
%I University of Windsor
%X The religious right often aligns its patriarchal opposition to same-sex marriage with the defence of religious freedom. In this article, I identify resources for confronting such prejudicial religiosity by surveying two predominant feminist approaches to same-sex marriage that are often assumed to be at odds: discourse ethics and queer critical theory. This comparative analysis opens to view commitments that may not be fully recognizable from within either feminist framework: commitments to ideals of selfhood, to specific conceptions of justice, and to particular definitions of secularism. I conclude by examining the "postsecular" turn in feminism, suggesting that we can see the same-sex marriage debate not in terms of an impasse between differing feminist approaches, but in terms of shared existential and ethical affinities.
%K feminism
%K epistemology
%K same-sex marriage
%K secularism
%U http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2938