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Alone Together : Law and the Meanings of Marriage.
Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist lega. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195344431 019534443X 1280453281 9781280453281 0585164355 9780585164359 |