04345nam 22008414a 450 991077760500332120230828223804.00-8147-8647-21-4294-1508-810.18574/9780814786475(CKB)1000000000467192(EBL)2081674(OCoLC)319491929(SSID)ssj0000198280(PQKBManifestationID)11937376(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198280(PQKBWorkID)10169125(PQKB)10192066(MiAaPQ)EBC2081674(DE-B1597)548222(DE-B1597)9780814786475(MdBmJHUP)muse86832(Au-PeEL)EBL2081674(CaPaEBR)ebr10137181(MiAaPQ)EBC3025581(Au-PeEL)EBL3025581(OCoLC)928197481(EXLCZ)99100000000046719220050708d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMarriage proposals[electronic resource] questioning a legal status /edited by Anita BernsteinNew York New York University Pressc20061 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9110-7 0-8147-9929-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The meaning of marriage / Martha Albertson Fineman -- Taking government out of the marriage business : families would benefit / Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller -- What place for marriage (e)quality in marriage promotion? / Linda C. McClain -- Anthropological perspectives on the abolition of marriage / Lawrence Rosen -- Marriage as a 'badge and incident' of democratic freedom / Peggy Cooper Davis -- The state of marriage and the state in marriage : what must be done / Mary Lyndon Shanley.The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage. No joint income tax return; no immigration privileges like the “fiancée visa” or the right to bring in a husband or wife; no special statuses for prison visits or hospital decisions; no prerogative to remain silent in court by claiming “confidential marital communications”; no pension entitlements; no marital benefits and detriments regarding criminal or civil liability.The anthology makes a unique contribution amid the two marriage furors of the day: same-sex marriage and the Bush Administration's “marriage movement” (that marrying is good and more marriages would be better for society). Abolishing the legal category of marriage is the only policy suggestion in current American discourse that speaks to both causes. Activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage fight, along with marriage movement partisans, all seek improvement through law reform. Marriage Proposals gives them a viable reform—abolition of marriage as a legal status—for fighting battles in the courtroom and the streets.Contributors include Anita Bernstein, Peggy Cooper Davis, Martha Albertson Fineman, Linda C. McClain, Marshall Miller, Lawrence Rosen, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Dorian Solot.Marriage lawUnited StatesPhilosophyMarriage lawPhilosophyAdministrations.Bush.amid.anthology.contribution.day.furors.improvement.makes.marriage.movement.reform.same-sex.seeking.that.through.unique.Marriage lawPhilosophy.Marriage lawPhilosophy.306.81/01Bernstein Anita1485065MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777605003321Marriage proposals3703988UNINA