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02468aam a2200325 i 4500 001 BC1802D6AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240104011316 008 230413s2023 ctua g b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300271935 020 $a 030027193X 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a HQ734 $b .B38 2023 082 14 $a 306.81 BAUM 100 1 $a Baum, Devorah, $e author. 245 10 $a On marriage / $c Devorah Baum. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 323 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and filmography (page 324). 505 0 $a Marriage as creation -- Marriage as conversation -- Marriage as entertainment -- Marriage as religion -- Marriage as afterlife. 520 $a "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. 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. But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals think of marriage?" 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'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. Entertaining, illuminating, consoling, and candid, On Marriage is an unprecedented investigation of what we are really talking about when we talk about marriage. --Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Marriage. 650 0 $a Marriage $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Marriage $x Religious aspects. 650 7 $a Marriage. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010443. 650 7 $a Marriage $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010485. 650 7 $a Marriage $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010522. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240104011815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC1802D6AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search