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  • Essay / More egalitarian than the others By Rebecca Solenit Summary

    . .” Solnit says that with this law, the wife and her earnings will automatically pass into the power of the husband and the wife will not be allowed to touch or use them if the husband does not agree with their use. Rebecca adds to the article the laws against domestic violence passed in 1970 in England and the United States and gives as an example Edna O'Brien's experience of domestic violence. Furthermore, she describes the feminist act on same-sex marriage in which she explains that the only drawback they have been natural reproduction which in the case of heterosexual marriage is not a problem, but she shows the reader the arguments that they give to explain that “marriage aims to beget and raise children” and that reproduction in reality can be done in different ways. Solnit also reports that marriage equality is not just about raising children, because even though heterosexual marriages have the advantage of having children naturally and some others without children, these marriages do not guarantee