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" Minimizing marriage : "
Elizabeth Brake
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BL
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624822
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Brake, Elizabeth.
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Minimizing marriage : : marriage, morality, and the law /\ Elizabeth Brake
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Studies in feminist philosophy
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1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
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0199775354 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780199775354 (electronic bk.)
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0199774137
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0199774145
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9780199774135
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9780199774142
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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 -- 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
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Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One, "De-Moralizing Marriage," essays on promise and commitment argue that we cannot promise to love and so wedding vows are (mostly) failed promises, and that marriage may be a poor commitment strategy. The book contends with the most influential philosophical accounts of the moral value of marriage to argue that marriage has no inherent mor
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Marriage law.
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Marriage-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Marriage-- Philosophy.
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HQ734.B785 2012eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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