Marriage Proposals : Questioning a Legal Status / ed. by Anita Bernstein.
Bernstein, Anita, contributor.; Bernstein, Anita, editor.; Davis, Peggy Cooper, contributor.; Fineman, Martha Albertson, contributor.; McClain, Linda C., contributor.; Miller, Marshall, contributor.; Rosen, Lawrence, contributor.; Shanley, Mary Lyndon, contributor.; Solot, Dorian, contributor.
2006
KF510 .M37 2006eb
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Marriage Proposals : Questioning a Legal Status / ed. by Anita Bernstein.
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9780814786475
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786475.001.0001
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
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©2006
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814786475.001.0001 doi
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KF510 .M37 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.81/01
Summary
The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage. No joint income tax return; no immigration privileges like the "fiancée visa" or the right to bring in a husband or wife; no special statuses for prison visits or hospital decisions; no prerogative to remain silent in court by claiming "confidential marital communications"; no pension entitlements; no marital benefits and detriments regarding criminal or civil liability.The anthology makes a unique contribution amid the two marriage furors of the day: same-sex marriage and the Bush Administration's "marriage movement" (that marrying is good and more marriages would be better for society). Abolishing the legal category of marriage is the only policy suggestion in current American discourse that speaks to both causes. Activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage fight, along with marriage movement partisans, all seek improvement through law reform. Marriage Proposals gives them a viable reform-abolition of marriage as a legal status-for fighting battles in the courtroom and the streets.Contributors include Anita Bernstein, Peggy Cooper Davis, Martha Albertson Fineman, Linda C. McClain, Marshall Miller, Lawrence Rosen, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Dorian Solot.
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Bernstein, Anita, contributor.
Bernstein, Anita, editor.
Davis, Peggy Cooper, contributor.
Fineman, Martha Albertson, contributor.
McClain, Linda C., contributor.
Miller, Marshall, contributor.
Rosen, Lawrence, contributor.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon, contributor.
Solot, Dorian, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Challenges to the Status of Marriage
Chapter 1. The Meaning of Marriage
Chapter 2. Taking Government Out of the Marriage Business
Chapter 3. What Place for Marriage (E)quality in Marriage Promotion?
Part II. Some Perils of Attempting Abolition
Chapter 4. Anthropological Perspectives on the Abolition of Marriage
Chapter 5. Marriage as a "Badge and Incident" of Democratic Freedom
Chapter 6. The State of Marriage and the State in Marriage
Afterword
About the Contributors
Index

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