Minimizing Marriage

Minimizing Marriage
Author: Elizabeth Brake
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199774137


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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.


Minimizing Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Elizabeth Brake
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: OUP USA

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This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that ma
Against Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Clare Chambers
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state. Clare Chambers shows how feminist and libera
After Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Elizabeth Brake
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Provides a collection of essays by liberal and feminist philosophers addressing the question of whether marriage reform ought to stop with same-sex marriage. Ta
In Defense of Plural Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Ronald C. Den Otter
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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With over half of Americans now in favor of marriage equality, it is clear that societal norms of marriage are being quickly redefined. The growing belief that
Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Christie Hartley
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of political lib