Minimizing marriage marriage, morality, and the law
Title:
Minimizing marriage marriage, morality, and the law
Author:
Brake, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9780199775354
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 240 pages).
Series:
Studies in feminist philosophy
Studies in feminist philosophy.
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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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