Alone Together: Law & the Meanings of Marriage

by Milton C. Regan Jr.

Book Overview

Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019511003X
• ISBN13: 9780195110036
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"