Looking for love in the legal discourse of marriage / Renata Grossi.
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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Canberra ACT, Australia :
Australian Nacional University Press,
[2014]
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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.