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Exalted Status
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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Jun 20, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
The idea that marriage is a fundamental, American institution isn’t just a cultural one – it has serious economic and legal implications. For most of its history, the U.S. has used marriage as a vessel to confer privilege and status onto some people, while marginalizing others. This week, our host, Julie Kohler, takes us on a historical marriage tour to examine how marriage achieved its exalted status, and how it became a tool – one that creates order, defines cultural norms, and maintains hierarchies of inequality.
Released:
Jun 20, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (32)
Legacy: This November, a broad coalition of more than 78 million voters--the most in American history--cast ballots for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. In her first speech as Vice President-Elect, Harris took to the stage wearing suffragist white and declared that she stands on the shoulders of generations of women who paved her path. How do we make sense of the fact that most white women did not stand with her? by White Picket Fence