What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution

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Beacon Press, 31 mei 2016 - 328 pagina's
In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement

Will same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled throughout history whenever the marriage rules change. But marriage, as E. J. Graff shows in this lively, fascinating tour through the history of marriage in the West, has always been a social battleground, its rules constantly shifting to fit each era and economy. The marriage debates have been especially tumultuous for the past hundred and fifty years-in ways that lead directly to today's debate over whether marriage could mean not just Boy + Girl = Babies, but also Girl + Girl = Love.
 

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Inhoudsopgave

The Radical Case for Gay Marriage by Richard
Money
The Working Marriage
Aint Nobodys Business If I Say I Do
Cant Buy Me Love
The Protestants Rebel against Celibacy
Intimate to the Degree of Being Sacred
What Makes a Family?
Protecting the Family
Polygamy
Utopians
Order
Is It Marriage Yet?
Heart
Tying the Knot or Who Can Say I Do?
CONCLUSION

Mother Father Other?
Why Have Kids?
Barricading the Tribe
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E. J. Graff is a journalist and independent scholar whose work has appeared in the New York TimesBoston Globe, The Nation, The Village Voice, Out, and elsewhere. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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