What Is Marriage For? : The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution

Name: What Is Marriage For? : The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution
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ISBN: 9780807041352

ISBN-10: 0807041351

ISBN-13: 9780807041352

Edition: 2004

Authors: E. J. Graff

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In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movementWill same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled throughout history whenever the marriage rules change. But marriage, as E. J. Graff shows in this lively, fascinating tour through the history of marriage in the West, has always been a social battleground, its rules constantly shifting to fit each era and economy. The marriage debates have been especially tumultuous for the past hundred and fifty years-in ways that lead directly to today's debate over whether…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword: The Radical Case for Gay Marriage



Introduction



Money


Exchanging It: The Marriage Market


Making It: The Working Marriage


Being It or Being Without It: Slaves and Paupers


Keeping It: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Say "I Do"


Keeping It: What's His Is His and What's Hers Is ... Whose?


Ignoring It: Can't Buy Me Love


Sharing It: So Who Needs Marriage?



Sex



Christians Reject Marriage


Reproducing: Is It a Marriage ... Or Is It a Brothel?



The Protestants Rebel against Celibacy



Heart and Soul v. Womb and Sperm



Intimate to the Degree of Being Sacred



Babies


What Makes a Family?


What Do We Do about Those Little Bastards?


Will the "Real" Parent Please Stand Up: Mother, Father, Other?


Why Have Kids?


Should Lesbians and Gay Men Be Parents?



Kin


Marrying Out: Barricading the Tribe


Marrying In: Protecting the Family


Marrying Early and Marrying Often: Polygamy


Marrying Everyone: Utopians



Order


Inside Out or Outside In: Who Says You're Married?


Living Together: Is It Marriage Yet?


Remember the Ladies: Who Runs the Marriage?



Heart


Dissent: Untying the Knot, or When Can You Say "I Don't"?


Consent: Tying the Knot, or Who Can Say "I Do"?


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index