Looking for love in the legal discourse of marriage
This book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western marriage discourse, and considers how the ideologies of romantic love are (or ar...
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| Language: | English |
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Canberra ACT, Australia
Australian Nacional University Press
[2014]©2014, 2014
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Love and marriage
- 2. The diminishing significance of sexual intercourse
- 3. The continuing importance of economic factors
- 4. The foregrounding of love in the same-sex marriage debate
- 5. Conclusion: law, love and marriage