Minimizing Marriage - Marriage, Morality, and the Law

Zusatztext This is an engaging, stimulating and provoking work of political and ethical philosophy that approaches its central issue from a number of angles. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Brake was educated at The Universities of Oxford (B.A.) and St. Andrews (M. Litt., PhD). Since 2000 she has taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada; in 2011-2012 is a Visiting Associate Professor at Arizona State University. She has written on the construction of parental obligations, fathers' rights and responsibilities, and political liberalism, in addition to work on marriage. Klappentext This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized. Zusammenfassung This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Marriage and Philosophy Part One. De-Moralizing Marriage 1. The Marriage Promise: Is Divorce Promise-Breaking? 2. How to Commit Marriage: A Conceptual Guide 3. Marriage, Sex, and Morals 4. Special Treatment for Lovers: Marriage, Care, and Amatonormativity Part Two: Democratizing Marriage 5. Critiques of Marriage: An Essentially Unjust Institution? 6. Defining Marriage: Political Liberalism and the Same-Sex Marriage Debates 7. Minimizing Marriage: What Political Liberalism Implies for Marriage Law 8. Challenges for Minimal Marriage: Poverty, Property, Polygyny ...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Brake, Brake Elizabeth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2012
• EAN: 9780199774135
• ISBN: 978-0-19-977413-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Family Law / Divorce & Separation, LAW / Family Law / Marriage, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Sociology: family & relationships, Ethics and moral philosophy, Sociology: family and relationships, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, Family law: marriage, separation and divorce