A Feminist Guide to Marriage by Suzanne Leonard
A Feminist Guide to Marriage by Suzanne Leonard is an interesting read. Especially for someone like me who was raised in a conservative, patriarchal home. I was not a feminist in any way shape or form until I reached Middle Age. These past few years, I have been seeing society and institutions differently. A Feminist Guide to Marriage was written by a teacher who has studied popular culture for the past 25 years. She has also been married to a man for 15 years. I found this book to be part memoir of her life, part stories of other women's lives, and part textbook information. All in all, I found it to be very interesting. Leonard covers a lot of information in The Feminist Guide to Marriage . She talks about arranged marriages, weddings, gay marriage, Money in marriage, Sex, jobs/work, Consensual non-monogamy, children, and divorce. The author does a good job of citing sources for all of her work at the end of each chapter. While we do have some common ground in cer...