| Acknowledgements |
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| Series Preface |
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| Introduction |
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PART I CHANGING INTIMACIES - THE THEORY |
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`On the Way to a Post-Familial Family: From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities', Theory, Culture & Society, 15, pp. 53-70. |
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`Intimacy Transformed? A Critical Look at the ``Pure Relationship''', Sociology, 33, pp. 477-94. |
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PART II CHANGING INTIMACIES - EMPIRICAL RESEARCH |
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`Why Marry?-Perceptions of the Affianced', Family Law Journal, 31, pp. 197-207. |
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41 | (12) |
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`Why Don't They Marry? Cohabitation, Commitment and DIY Marriage', Child and Family Law Quarterly, 17, pp. 383-98. |
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53 | (16) |
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`Cohabitation and Commitment: Partnership Plans of Young Men and Women', Sociological Review, 50, pp. 356-77. |
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69 | (22) |
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`Marriage and the Moral Bases of Personal Relationships', Journal of Law and Society, 31, pp. 510-38. |
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91 | (30) |
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`The Significance of Marriage: Contrasts between White British and Ethnic Minority Groups in England', Law & Policy, 27, pp. 379-98. |
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121 | (20) |
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`Regulation of Intimacy and Love Semantics in Couples Living Apart Together', International Review of Sociology, 11, pp. 39-46. |
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141 | (8) |
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`Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond ``the Family'': Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century', Current Sociology, 52, pp. 135-59. |
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149 | (28) |
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PART III WHY LEGAL REGULATION AT ALL? |
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`The Marriage Act 1753: A Case Study in Family Law-Making', International Journal of Law and the Family, 1, pp. 133-54. |
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177 | (22) |
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`Debates and Issues Regarding Marriage and Cohabitation in the British and American Literature', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 15, pp. 159-84. |
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199 | (26) |
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`Homosexual Rights', Child and Family Law Quarterly, 16, pp. 125-34. |
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225 | (12) |
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`The Case Against Legal Recognition of Cohabitation', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 29, pp. 480-97. |
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237 | (18) |
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`Marriage and the Good of Obligation', American Journal of Jurisprudence, 47, pp. 41-69. |
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255 | (30) |
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`Just Marriage: On the Public Importance of Private Unions', Boston Review, 28, pp. 1-13. |
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285 | (14) |
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`Contract Marriage - The Way Forward or Dead End?', Journal of Law and Society, 23, pp. 234-46. |
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299 | (14) |
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`The Tide in Favour of Equality: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and England and Wales', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 20, pp. 1-37. |
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313 | (38) |
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`Why Marriage?', Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 9, pp. 239-79. |
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351 | (34) |
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`Marriage is for Heterosexuals - May the Rest of Us be Saved From it', Child and Family Law Quarterly, 12, pp. 363-69. |
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385 | (8) |
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`We Will Get What We Ask For: Why Legalizing Gay and Lesbian Marriage Will Not ``Dismantle the Legal Structure of Gender in Every Marriage''', Virginia Law Review, 79, pp. 1535-50. |
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393 | (16) |
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`Law, Women and the Family: The Question of Polygyny in a New South Africa', Acta Juridica, pp. 116-34. |
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409 | (22) |
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PART V LAW AND CIVIL REGISTRATION |
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`The Pacs and Marriage and Cohabitation in France', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 15, pp. 135-58. |
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431 | (24) |
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`Couplings: Civil Partnership in the United Kingdom', New York City Law Review, 8, pp. 543-72. |
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PART VI LAW AND CONJUGAL COHABITATION |
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`Regulation of Cohabitation, Changing Family Policies and Social Attitudes: A Discussion of Britain Within Europe', Law & Policy, 26, pp. 57-86. |
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487 | (30) |
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`Legal Treatment of Cohabitation in the United States', Law & Policy, 26, pp. 119-51. |
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517 | (36) |
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PART VII LAW AND NON-CONJUGAL RELATIONSHIPS |
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`Why We Should Care About Friends: An Argument for Queering the Care Imaginary in Social Policy', Social Policy and Society, 3, pp. 409-19. |
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553 | (12) |
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`Displacing the ``Conjugal Family'' in Legal Policy - A Progressive Move?', Child and Family Law Quarterly, 17, pp. 141-63. |
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565 | (24) |
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| Name Index |
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