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Even in secular contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what is its moral significance? 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...
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Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In 1958, a few weeks after Richard and Mildred Loving got married in Washington, DC, they were arrested one night in their Virginia bedroom for the crime of interracial marriage. Sentenced to one year in jail, the couple was told the sentence would be suspended if they left the state and did not return for 25 years. The Lovings moved to Washington, DC but in 1963 they went back to court to challenge...
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The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth...
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Examines the position of women in Islamic society, and the ways in which the legal system has shaped the family, property rights, space, and sexuality, from classical and medieval times to the present, with case studies that illustrate discrimination and expectations in the culture.
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