State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a close examination of the rhetoric used in ni

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Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male–female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a Histor