Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defense of the Marriage-Free State

by Clare Chambers

Book Overview

Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state. Clare Chambers shows how feminist and liberal principles require creation of a marriage-free state: one in which private marriages, whether religious or secular, would have no legal status.

Part One makes the case against marriage. Chambers investigates the critique of marriage that has developed within feminist and liberal theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744005
• ISBN13: 9780198744009
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"