Marriage proposals
Subtitle: questioning a legal status
By: edited by Anita Bernstein.
Contributors: Bernstein, Anita.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780814799291
Subjects: Marriage law -- United States -- Philosophy.; Marriage law -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The meaning of marriage / Martha Albertson Fineman; title: Taking government out of the marriage business : families would benefit / Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller; title: What place for marriage (e)quality in marriage promotion? / Linda C. McClain; title: Anthropological perspectives on the abolition of marriage / Lawrence Rosen; title: Marriage as a 'badge and incident' of democratic freedom / Peggy Cooper Davis; title: The state of marriage and the state in marriage : what must be done / Mary Lyndon Shanley.