Just Marriage

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ID23764889
AuthorsMary Lyndon Shanley (corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-09-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJust Marriage (New Democracy Forum/Boston Review) (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195176254.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388083286
ISBN9780195176254
LanguageEN
Citations received10

From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the “sacred institution” of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Who should be allowed to marry and is marriage a public or private act? Should marriage be abandoned completely? Or should marriage be redefined as a civil institution that promotes sexual and racial equality? As the fierce national debate over same-sex marriage and civil unions continues, Mary Lyndon Shanley argues that while the state should continue to play a role in regulating personal relations, the law must be fundamentally reformed if marriage is to become a more just institution. Fourteen prominent writers and thinkers respond, including Nancy F. Cott, William N. Eskridge, Jr., Amitai Etzioni, Martha Albertson Fineman, and Cass R. Sunstein.

Institution · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law

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