What is marriage for? / E.J. Graff
- Bib ID:
- 1384701
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Graff, E. J
- Description:
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- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1999
- 303 p.
- xv, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0807041149 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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"What Is Marriage For? documents the many forms marriage has taken - while arguing forcefully for the legalization of same-sex marriage, and shedding new light on such ongoing battles as equality between wives and husbands and the always-contentious definition of "family.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Money. Exchanging It: The Marriage Market. Making It: The Working Marriage. Being It or Being Without It: Slaves and Paupers. Keeping It: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Say "I Do" Keeping It: What's His Is His and What's Hers Is ... Whose? Ignoring It: Can't Buy Me Love. Sharing It: So Who Needs Marriage?
- 2. Sex. Refraining, 1: Christians Reject Marriage. Reproducing: Is It a Marriage ... Or Is It a Brothel? Refraining, 2: The Protestants Rebel against Celibacy. Refreshing, 1: Heart and Soul v. Womb and Sperm. Refreshing, 2: Intimate to the Degree of Being Sacred
- 3. Babies. What Makes a Family? What Do We Do about Those Little Bastards? Will the "Real" Parent Please Stand Up: Mother, Father, Other? Why Have Kids? Should Lesbians and Gay Men Be Parents?
- 4. Kin. Marrying Out: Barricading the Tribe. Marrying In: Protecting the Family. Marrying Early and Marrying Often: Polygamy. Marrying Everyone: Utopians
- 5. Order. Inside Out or Outside In: Who Says You're Married?
- Living Together: Is It Marriage Yet? Remember the Ladies: Who Runs the Marriage?
- 6. Heart. Dissent: Untying the Knot, or When Can You Say "I Don't"? Consent: Tying the Knot, or Who Can Say "I Do"?
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-291).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-291) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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