Brook, Heather
Conjugal Rites
Table of contents
1. Introduction: Proposals and Propositions
Heather Brook
2. Theorizing Conjugality
Heather Brook
3. Making Marriage: Validity and Nullity
Heather Brook
4. Union: Adultery and Other Sexual Performatives
Heather Brook
5. Marriage “Beyond the Pale”: “Mixed” Marriage, “Miscegenation,” and Assimilation
Heather Brook
6. S/he Done Me Wrong: Adversarial Versus “No-fault” Divorce
Heather Brook
7. The “Limping” Marriage: Regulating Cohabitation
Heather Brook
8. Queer Propositions: Sex and Sexualities
Heather Brook
9. Conclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Conjugality
Heather Brook
Keywords: Social Sciences, Family, Gender Studies, Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging, Sociology, general, Cultural Studies
- Author(s)
- Brook, Heather
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 265 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230609372
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-53726-6
