Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law

Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-256

  Brake, Elizabeth ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amatonormativity; Care; Care networks; Commitment; Feminism; Liberalism; Marriage; Polygamy; Promises; Same sex marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880042873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199774142.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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