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What is marriage for?

Title
What is marriage for? / E.J. Graff.
Author
Graff, E. J.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Beacon, ©1999.

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Description
xv, 303 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Graff, "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"--Jacket.
Subject
  • Marriage
  • Same-sex marriage
  • Marriage
  • Huwelijk
  • Släktskap
  • Familjen
  • Historia
  • Äktenskap
  • Lesbianism
  • Homosexualitet
  • Socialhistoria
  • Registrerat partnerskap
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-291) and index.
Contents
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? -- 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 -- 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? -- Kin -- Marrying Out: Barricading the Tribe -- Marrying In: Protecting the Family -- Marrying Early and Marrying Often: Polygamy -- Marrying Everyone: Utopians -- Order -- Inside Out or Outside In: Who Says You're Married? -- Living Together: Is It Marriage Yet? -- Remember the Ladies: Who Runs the Marriage? -- Heart -- Dissent: Untying the Knot, or When Can You Say "I Don't"? -- Consent: Tying the Knot, or Who Can Say "I Do"?
ISBN
  • 0807041149
  • 9780807041147
  • 0807041157
  • 9780807041154
LCCN
98054818
OCLC
  • ocm40521296
  • 40521296
  • SCSB-14691333
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Princeton University Library