Marriage Proposals : : Questioning a Legal Status /

Marriage Proposals : : Questioning a Legal Status / / ed. by Anita Bernstein.

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The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bernstein, Anita,
Davis, Peggy Cooper,
Fineman, Martha Albertson,
McClain, Linda C.,
Miller, Marshall,
Rosen, Lawrence,
Shanley, Mary Lyndon,
Solot, Dorian,
HerausgeberIn:
Bernstein, Anita,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Challenges to the Status of Marriage
  • Chapter 1. The Meaning of Marriage
  • Chapter 2. Taking Government Out of the Marriage Business
  • Chapter 3. What Place for Marriage (E)quality in Marriage Promotion?
  • Part II. Some Perils of Attempting Abolition
  • Chapter 4. Anthropological Perspectives on the Abolition of Marriage
  • Chapter 5. Marriage as a “Badge and Incident” of Democratic Freedom
  • Chapter 6. The State of Marriage and the State in Marriage
  • Afterword
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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