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• Title:Conjugal rites : marriage and marriage-like relationships before the law / Heather Brook.
  
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• Author/Creator:Brook, Heather.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K670 .B76 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: K670 .B76 2007 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Domestic relations--History.
  Marriage law--History.
  Unmarried couples--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
  Cohabitation agreements--History.
  Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--History.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:viii, 257 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-233) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781403976567 (hbk.)
  1403976562 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction: Proposals and Propositions
  2. Theorizing Conjugality
  3. Making Marriage: Validity and Nullity
  4. Union: Adultery and Other Sexual Performatives
  5. Marriage "Beyond the Pale": "Mixed" Marriage, "Miscegenation," and Assimilation
  6. S/he Done Me Wrong: Adversarial Versus "No-fault" Divorce
  7. "Limping" Marriage: Regulating Cohabitation
  8. Queer Propositions: Sex and Sexualities
  9. Conclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Conjugality.