Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage by Renata Grossi
English | Oct. 10, 2014 | ISBN: 1925021793 | 182 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
This 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.