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020 $a9781925021790
024 7 $a10.26530/OAPEN_502537$2doi
041 0 $aeng
042 $adc
072 7 $aLNMB$2bicssc
100 1 $aGrossi, Renata$4aut
245 10 $aLooking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage
260 $a$bANU Press$c2014
520 $aThis book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western marriage discourse, and considers how the ideologies of romantic love are (or are not) replicated in the legal meaning of marriage. This examination raises two key issues. If love has become central to people?s understanding of marriage, then it is important for the legitimacy of law that love is reflected in both the content and application of the law. More fundamentally, it requires us to reconsider how we understand law, and to ask whether it is engaged with emotions, or separate from them. Along the way this book also considers the meaning of love itself in contemporary society, and asks whether love is a radical force capable of breaking down conservative meanings embedded in institutions like marriage, or whether it simply mirrors them. This book will be of interest to everyone working on love, marriage and sexuality in the disciplines of law, sociology and philosophy.
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aFamily law: marriage & divorce$2bicssc
653 $alaw
653 $aaustralia
653 $amarriage
653 $alove
856 40 $uhttp://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=502537$zAccess full text online
856 40 $uhttp://press.anu.edu.au/about/conditions-use$zLicense