Table of Contents:
  • The marriage promise: is divorce promise-breaking?
  • How to commit marriage: a conceptual guide
  • Marriage, sex, and morals
  • Special treatment for lovers: marriage, care, and amatonormativity
  • Critiques of marriage: an essentially unjust institution?
  • Defining marriage: political liberalism and the same-sex marriage debates
  • Minimizing marriage: what political liberalism implies for marriage law
  • Challenges for minimal marriage: poverty, property, polygyny.