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HQ734 .B785 2012eb
HQ734
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B785
2012eb
کتابخانه
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
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0199775354 (electronic bk.)
(Number (ISBN
9780199775354 (electronic bk.)
Erroneous ISBN
0199774137
Erroneous ISBN
0199774145
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9780199774135
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9780199774142
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Minimizing marriage :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
marriage, morality, and the law /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elizabeth Brake
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in feminist philosophy
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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362368
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Minimizing marriage.
International Standard Book Number
9780199774135
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Marriage law.
Marriage-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Marriage-- Philosophy.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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HQ734
Book number
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B785
2012eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Brake, Elizabeth.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Ohio Library and Information Network.
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Date of Transaction
20121214091859.0
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rda
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Electronic name
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