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Marriage rites and rights /
Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so. At the same time, weddings are big business, couple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction; I. OVERVIEW; II. CHOICE, INDIVIDUALITY AND IDENTITY; III. FAMILY AND COMMUNITY; IV. LOVE AND LAW; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Part I; 2. Marriage Rites-Trends in Marriages by Manner of Solemnisation and Denomination in Englandand Wales, 1841-2012; I. INTRODUCTION; II. OVERALL TRENDS IN MARRIAGE FROM 1841 TO 2012; III. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE STATISTICAL TRENDS IN MARRIAGE; IV. MARRIAGES IN THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS AND FAITHS.
- v. MARITAL STATUS BEFORE MARRIAGE AND MANNER OF SOLEMNISATIONVI. COHABITATION, DIVORCE, AND BIRTHS OUTSIDE MARRIAGE; VII. REMARRIAGE OF THE DIVORCED-A DIFFICULT ISSUE FOR THE CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS; VIII. PRE-MARITAL COHABITATION AND DENOMINATION OF MARRIAGE; IX. MARRIAGES BY DAY OF THE WEEK AND DENOMINATION; X. THE SPOUSES' FATHERS ACTING AS WITNESSES TO THE MARRIAGE; XI. DISCUSSION; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 3. From this Day Forward? Pre-Marital Cohabitation and the Rite of Marriage from the 1960s to the Present Day; I. INTRODUCTION; II. EMERGENCE OF PRE-MARITAL COHABITATION.
- III. PRE-MARITAL COHABITATION AS PART OF THE RITE OF GETTING MARRIEDIV. PRE-MARITAL COHABITATION CHANGING THE RITE OF MARRIAGE; V. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 4. No Frills: Wedding Presents and the Meaning of Marriage, 1945-2003; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE CASE OF THE WEDDING PRESENT; III. MASS OBSERVATION: WRITING THE EVERYDAY; IV. SOCIAL AND MATERIAL: THE WEDDING AND THE GIFT; IV. THE DEFINING OBJECT; V. THE GENERAL VIEW OF CHANGES OVER TIME: WEDDING, MARRIAGE, HOME; VI. THE COMMERCIAL LIST AND DIFFERENT ORDER OF MARRIAGE; VII. A NEW MEANING: WITHOUT PARENT APPROVAL?
- VIII. A CONCLUSION: THE (EXPLANATORY) EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULEBIBLIOGRAPHY; 5. Civil Partnership Ceremonies: (Hetero)normativity, Ritual and Gender; I. INTRODUCTION; II. MARRIAGE AS A LINGUISTIC OR SYMBOLIC FRAMEWORK FOR CIVIL PARTNERSHIP; III. RITUAL, CEREMONY AND GENDER; IV. CONCLUDING COMMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Part II; 6. The Rite that Redefines the Rights? The Contemporary Role and Practice of Pre-Nuptial Agreement; I. SETTING THE SCENE ... ; II. INTRODUCTION; III. PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS: THE WIDER PERSPECTIVE; IV. PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS: THE ENGLISH LAW CONTEXT.
- v. WHO CONCLUDES PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES TODAY AND WHY?VI. THE PLACE OF WIDER KIN IN PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS; VII. NEGOTIATING THE PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT; VIII. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: A NEW RITE OF MARRIAGE?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 7. The 'Pure' Relationship, Sham Marriages and Immigration Control; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SHAM MARRIAGES: DETERMINING THE (ALMOST) INDETERMINABLE; III. A TYPOLOGY OF CROSS-BORDER MARRIAGES; IV. REGULATING SHAM MARRIAGE-OR REGULATING MARRIAGE?; V. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY.