Alone Together
Law and the Meanings of Marriage
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 1999
292 pages
978-0-19-534443-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Part I: Spouses and Persons
- 1 Introduction: Double Identity
- 2 Moments of Marriage
- Part II: Markets and Marriage
- 3 Economics, Marriage, and Divorce
- 4 Economics and Attachment
- Part III: Trust and Betrayal
- 5 Spousal Privilege
- 6 Adverse Testimony and the Internal Stance
- Part IV: Money and Divorce
- 7 Divorce Awards and Property Rhetoric
- 8 The Risks of Property Rhetoric
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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