What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution
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ISBN: 0807041157 / Publisher: Beacon Pr, May 2000
Documents the many forms marriage has taken, while arguing forcefully for the legalization of same-sex marriage and shedding new light on such ongoing battles as equality between wives and husbands and the always-contentious definition of "family"
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John Stuart Mill called marriage the first political institution most of us enter as adults. In a book that is always witty, often startling, E.J. Graff documents the many forms this institution has taken--while arguing forcefully for the legalization of same-sex marriage and shedding new light on such ongoing battles as equality between wives and husbands and the always contentious definition of family.
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