Marriage Proposals : Questioning a Legal Status /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2006]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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