Conjugal Rites

Marriage and Marriage-Like Relationships Before the Law

By: Heather Brook

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Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Conjugal Rites explores the legal shape of marriage as it has been determined by countless decisions concerning entry and exit into the ancient rite. Heather Brook examines the countless rules and protocols governing marriage that make it valid in the eyes of the law. She argues that the various sexual performatives associated with marriage can establish, reinforce, or rupture conjugal unity while exploring the historical and politcal regulations and prohibitions marriage has faced. Brook unites past and present, public and private, to investigate the changing meanings and effects of conjugality, and challenge the way we think about sex, gender and relationships.

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"Women's studies scholar Brook . . . critically interrogates marriage and the regulation of conjugal relationships. Aptly using theoretical insights from Foucault and Butler, she offers a sharp critique of feminist discussions of marriage as a stable social institution and proposes new ways of conceptualizing marriage as a dynamic arena of regulation based on governmentality, corporeality, and performativity. Basing her study on the analysis of legal and social discourse in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Brook applies her framework in discussing historical and contemporary issues around marriage including same-sex marriage, cohabitation, and divorce . . . Overall, this is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and feminist theory, and will also be widely accessible for readers who want to learn more about changing meanings of marriage and intimate relationships. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." - CHOICE

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Miscellaneous Items Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Family Law

Gay & Lesbian Studies Gay Studies for Gay Men Cultural Studies Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Introduction: Proposals and Proposition
Women and Wives: Stalemate?: Theorizing Conjugality
Making Marriage: Validity and Nullity
Union: Adultery and Other Sexual Performative
Marriage "Beyond the Pale:" Miscegenation, "Mixed" Marriage, and Assimilation
S/he Done Me Wrong: Matrimonial Offenses and No Fault Divorce
The "Limping" Marriage: Regulating Cohabitation
Queer Propositions: Sex and Sexualities
Conclusion: Sex/Marriage/Conjugality
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