Brook Conjugality

Marriage and Marriage-like Relationships before the Law
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-230-60937-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten

Reihe: Social Sciences (R0)

Conjugal Rites explores the legal shape of marriage as it has been determined by countless decisions concerning entry and exit into the ancient rite. Heather Brook examines the countless rules and protocols governing marriage that make it valid in the eyes of the law. She argues that the various sexual performatives associated with marriage can establish, reinforce, or rupture conjugal unity while exploring the historical and politcal regulations and prohibitions marriage has faced. Brook unites past and present, public and private, to investigate the changing meanings and effects of conjugality, and challenge the way we think about sex, gender and relationships.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brook, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Propositions, Proposals
Women and Wives: Stalemate?
Sex/Gender: Husbands, Wives, Spouses
Union: Sexual Performatives
Race Trouble: Marriage and the Politics of Assimilation
Consenting Adults: Sex and Crime in Marriage
Adversarial versus No-fault Divorce
Living Together
Sex and Sexualities

Über Autor(innen)

HEATHER BROOK is Lecturer in Women's Studies and Sociology, Flinders University, Australia.