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Cargando... What is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institutionpor E. J. Graff
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The book locates the same-sex marriage of the 1990s in the history of marriage, tracing the institution from the Old Testament Hebrews through medieval Catholic theologians to nineteenth-century Utopians. The author found an ever-changing institution that has always been a battleground, with same-sex marriage only the most recent skirmish in the battle. She discovered that in asking, “What is marriage for?” she was actually asking, “What does it mean to be fully human.” The social history of marriage has indeed been strange, and it is incredibly interesting as well. E. J. Graff explores the purpose of and the reasons for marriage in Europe and North America from the ancient to the modern, all the while making a strong case for the inclusion, and legality, of same-sex marriage partnerships. The book is divided into six sections, each focusing on a particular aspect of marriage: Money, Sex, Babies, Kin, Order, and Heart. Understandably, some of the sections have overlapping themes, but each presents different information in an extremely readable (and at times sarcastic) fashion. What Is Marriage For? seems to be very well researched and includes an extensive bibliography. However, the endnotes were difficult to match up with the text. Overall, Graff has written a well thought-out book and has defended same-sex marriage using the social history of marriage as the background and basis for her argument. Experiments in Reading sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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 movement Will 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 marriage could mean not just Boy + Girl = Babies, but also Girl + Girl = Love. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)306.81Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Marriage and Parenting MarriageClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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