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On Marriage

by Devorah Baum
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<B>A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker</B><BR /><BR /><B>&ldquo;Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration.&rdquo;&mdash;Stephanie Merritt, <I>The Guardian</I></B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn&rsquo;t that an extraordinary fact?&rdquo; So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book.&#160; Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> But when confronted with the question &ldquo;<I>What do intellectuals think of marriage?&rdquo;</I> Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot? To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own experiences of matrimony to both critique and celebrate marriage&rsquo;s many contradictions and its profound effects on us all. In doing so, she reveals how marriage has worked as a cover story for power and its abuses on the one hand, and for subversive and even utopian relational practices on the other.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Entertaining, illuminating, consoling, and candid, <I>On Marriage</I> is an unprecedented investigation of what we are really talking about when we talk about marriage.
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Publisher: Yale University Press

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  • Release date: October 1, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780300274417
  • Release date: October 1, 2023

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Family & Relationships Sociology Nonfiction

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<B>A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker</B><BR /><BR /><B>&ldquo;Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration.&rdquo;&mdash;Stephanie Merritt, <I>The Guardian</I></B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn&rsquo;t that an extraordinary fact?&rdquo; So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book.&#160; Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> But when confronted with the question &ldquo;<I>What do intellectuals think of marriage?&rdquo;</I> Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot? To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own experiences of matrimony to both critique and celebrate marriage&rsquo;s many contradictions and its profound effects on us all. In doing so, she reveals how marriage has worked as a cover story for power and its abuses on the one hand, and for subversive and even utopian relational practices on the other.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Entertaining, illuminating, consoling, and candid, <I>On Marriage</I> is an unprecedented investigation of what we are really talking about when we talk about marriage.
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Family & Relationships Sociology Nonfiction
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