Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 1944-

Title Just marriage / Mary Lyndon Shanley ; edited by Joshua Cohen and Deborah Chasman for Boston Review
Published Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 116 pages)
Series New democracy forum/Boston review series
New democracy forum/Boston review series.
Contents Just marriage : on the public importance of private unions / Mary Lyndon Shanley -- The public stake / Nancy F. Cott -- Marriage : love or care? / Joan C. Tronto -- Of federalism and caste / Cass R. Sunstein -- Why marriage? / Martha Alberston Fineman -- Mystification, neutrality, and same-sex couples in marriage / David B. Cruz -- The relational case for same-sex marriage / William N. Eskridge, Jr. -- A communitarian position for civil unions / Amitai Etzioni -- Between justice and commitment / Milton C. Regan, Jr. -- Just monogamy? / Elizabeth F. Emens -- The public supports of love / Drucilla Cornell -- After marriage / Wendy Brown -- Beyond marriage / Brenda Cossman -- Why we should disestablish marriage / Tamara Metz -- Afterword / Mary Lyndon Shanley
Summary As the national debate intensifies over what marriage is and who may marry, Mary Lyndon Shanley argues that although the state should continue to play a role in regulating personal relations, the law must be fundamentally reformed if marriage is to become a more just institution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Marriage -- United States.
Marriage -- Government policy -- United States
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Marriage
Marriage -- Government policy
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Joshua, 1951-
Chasman, Deborah
ISBN 1423722523
9781423722526
9780195176254
0195176251
9780195176261
019517626X
1280560509
9781280560507
9786610560509
6610560501
0198039174
9780198039174