Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction -- 1. What is marriage? -- 2. Prehistory -- 3. The river valleys -- 4. The Trobriand Islands -- 5. What marriage is -- 6. Deinstitutionalize marriage? -- 7. Goods in conflict -- 8. Determining marriage's fate -- Appendix : Topics in the anthropology of kinship -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
The idea of this book began in a conversation David Blankenhorn had with the president of Freedom to Marry, a group advocating equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. This man asked Blankenhorn, a leading figure in the "marriage movement," to endorse his group's objectives. Feeling a bit defensive, Blankenhorn replied, "Every child deserves a mother and a father." The Future of Marriage is the result of that conversation. In their current demands, Blankenhorn points out, gay and lesbian leaders are not asking for marriage with an adjective in front of it, but marriage itself. So in that se |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Marriage.
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Marriage -- History
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Same-sex marriage.
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Marriage.
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Same-sex marriage.
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Heirat -- USA -- Geschichte.
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Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft -- USA.
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Homosexuelles Paar -- Eheschliessung.
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Ehe -- Zukunft.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781594033599 |
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1594033595 |
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1282487957 |
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9781282487956 |
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9786612487958 |
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661248795X |
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