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Author Metz, Tamara

Title Untying the knot : marriage, the state, and the case for their divorce / Tamara Metz
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)
Contents Toward a liberal theory of marriage and the state -- Confusion in the courts -- Marriage and the state in liberal political thought -- Marriage : a formal, comprehensive social institution -- The liberal case for disestablishing marriage and creating an intimate caregiving union status --- Reconsidering the public/private debate
Summary Marriage is at the center of one of today's fiercest political debates. Activists argue about how to define it, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. Few, however, ask whether the state should have anything to do with marriage in the first place. In Untying the Knot, Tamara Metz addresses this crucial question, making a powerful argument that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. Rather than defining or conferring marriage, or relying on it to achieve legitimate public welfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index
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Subject Marriage -- United States.
Divorce -- United States
Civil unions -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Civil unions
Divorce
Marriage
United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400832224
1400832225
1282458787
9781282458789