| Description |
1 online resource (x, 240 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in feminist philosophy
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Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Philosophy.
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Marriage -- Philosophy. |
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Marriage. |
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Marriage -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Marriage -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Marriage law.
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Marriage law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Marriage. |
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Marriage law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brake, Elizabeth. Minimizing marriage. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199774135 (DLC) 2011029589 (OCoLC)742339159 |
| ISBN |
9780199775354 (electronic book) |
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0199775354 (electronic book) |
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9780199774135 |
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0199774137 |
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9780199774142 |
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0199774145 |
| Standard No. |
9786613623683 |
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