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Alone together : law and the meanings of marriage / Milton C. Regan, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 279 pages 24 cm)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585164355
  • 9780585164359
  • 9780195344431
  • 019534443X
  • 9786610453283
  • 6610453284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alone together.DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/63 21
LOC classification:
  • KF509 .R44 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
PART I— SPOUSES AND PERSONS: Introduction Double Identity -- Moments of Marriage -- PART II— MARKETS AND MARRIAGE: Economics, Marriage, and Divorce -- Economics and Attachment -- PART III— TRUST AND BETRAYAL: Spousal Privilege -- Adverse Testimony and the Internal Stance -- PART IV— MONEY AND DIVORCE: Divorce Awards and Property Rhetoric -- The Risks of Property Rhetoric -- CONCLUSION
Summary: Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists. -- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-269) and index.

PART I— SPOUSES AND PERSONS: Introduction Double Identity -- Moments of Marriage -- PART II— MARKETS AND MARRIAGE: Economics, Marriage, and Divorce -- Economics and Attachment -- PART III— TRUST AND BETRAYAL: Spousal Privilege -- Adverse Testimony and the Internal Stance -- PART IV— MONEY AND DIVORCE: Divorce Awards and Property Rhetoric -- The Risks of Property Rhetoric -- CONCLUSION

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists. -- Provided by publisher

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