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What is marriage for? / E.J. Graff ; [with a new foreword by Richard Goldstein].

Title: What is marriage for? / E.J. Graff ; [with a new foreword by Richard Goldstein].
Author: Graff, E. J.
Publication: Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.

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xxiii, 303 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Marriage, as E. J. Graff shows in this tour through the history of marriage in the West, has always been a social battleground, its rules constantly shifting to fit each era and economy. The marriage debates have been especially tumultuous for the past hundred and fifty years - in ways that lead directly to today's debate over whether marriage could mean not just Boy + Girl = Babies, but also Girl + Girl = Love."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-291) and index.

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Contents

Foreword: The Radical case for gay marriage / Richard Goldstein -- Introduction -- pt. 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 business if 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? -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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? -- pt. 4 Kin -- Marrying out: barricading the tribe -- Marrying in: protecting the family -- Marrying early and marrying often: polygamy -- Marrying everyone: utopians -- pt. 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? -- pt. 6 Heart -- Dissent: untying the knot, or when can you say "I don't"? -- Consent: Tying the knot, or who can say "I do"?

ISBN

0807041351 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004271862

OCLC

54844836

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Harvard Library