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Author Blankenhorn, David

Title The future of marriage / David Blankenhorn
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Encounter Books, 2007

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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
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Subject Marriage.
Marriage -- History
Same-sex marriage.
Marriage.
Same-sex marriage.
Heirat -- USA -- Geschichte.
Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft -- USA.
Homosexuelles Paar -- Eheschliessung.
Ehe -- Zukunft.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781594033599
1594033595
1282487957
9781282487956
9786612487958
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