Reconstructing marriage
Subtitle: the legal status of relationships in a changing society
By: Caroline Sörgjerd
Series: European family law series -- 31; European family law series -- 31.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, [England]; Portland, [Or.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781780680378
Subjects: Marriage law; Unmarried couples; Law and legislation; Same-sex marriage; Legal status, laws
Notes: "This book is a slightly modified version of my doctoral thesis, successfully defended on 11 February 2011 at Uppsala University"--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Marriage as a gift of God; title: Marriage between two equals; title: Toward increased autonomy in marriage : the enactments of the 1970s and the Marriage Code of 1987; title: A "second-class" marriage? : the Cohabitee Acts of 1973, 1987 and 2003; title: Toward gender-neutral marriage : preceding developments; title: Legal recognition of same-sex couples : Spain and the Netherlands; title: The European Union's, Council of Europe's and human rights' perspectives on changing cohabitation models; title: The essence of marriage.