Who decides? Marriage law, the state, and mutual consent
Is the spirit gendered? Fluid gender, sex-change, and same-sex marriage
"Immortal longings": love-death, rebirth, and union through life after life
A second self: traditions of romantic friendship
Monstrous to miraculous: same-sex reproduction and parenting
All in the family: same-sex relationships in traditional families
"Married among their companions": female-female relations in pre-modern erotica
Aspiring to union: twentieth-century cinema.