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Minimizing marriage : marriage, morality, and the law /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brake, Elizabeth
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy.
Subjects:
Marriage law.
Marriage > Moral and ethical aspects.
Marriage > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: marriage and philosophy
  • 1. De-moralizing marriage
  • The marriage promise: is divorce promise-breaking?
  • How to commit marriage: a conceptual guide
  • Marriage, sex, and morals
  • Special treatment for lovers: marriage, care, and amatonormativity
  • 2. Democratizing marriage
  • Critiques of marriage: an essentially unjust institution?
  • Defining marriage: political liberalism and the same-sex marriage debates
  • Minimizing marriage: what political liberalism implies for marriage law
  • Challenges for minimal marriage: poverty, property, polygyny.