Elizabeth Brake is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. Her book, Minimizing Marriage (Oxford University Press, 2012), won an Honorable Mention for the 2014 APA Book Prize. She has also written on parental rights and obligations, liberal theory, Kant and Hegel, and is currently working on a project on disaster ethics. She has held a Murphy Institute Fellowship at Tulane and a Canadian SSHRC Grant.

... every single essay raises crucial questions about marriage. For this reason alone, and, of course, for others, the book is a welcome and valuable addition to the writings on marriage.

• Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 1: Liberal Neutrality and Civil Marriage ; Simon C?bulea May ; Chapter 2: Is Civil Marriage Illiberal? ; Ralph Wedgwood ; Chapter 3: The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State ; Clare Chambers ; Chapter 4: Is Marriage Bad for Children? Rethinking the Connection between Having Children, Romantic Love, and Marriage ; Samantha Brennan and Bill Cameron ; Chapter 5: Equality and Non-Hierarchy in Marriage: What Do Feminists Really Want? ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 6: Liberty and Polygamy ; Peter de Marneffe ; Chapter 7: Polygamy, Privacy, and Equality ; Laurie Shrage ; Chapter 8: Temporary Marriage ; Daniel Nolan ; Chapter 9: The (Dis)value of Commitment to One's Spouse ; Anca Gheaus ; Bibliography ; Index

Elizabeth Brake is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. Her book, Minimizing Marriage (Oxford University Press, 2012), won an Honorable Mention for the 2014 APA Book Prize. She has also written on parental rights and obligations, liberal theory, Kant and Hegel, and is currently working on a project on disaster ethics. She has held a Murphy Institute Fellowship at Tulane and a Canadian SSHRC Grant.

... every single essay raises crucial questions about marriage. For this reason alone, and, of course, for others, the book is a welcome and valuable addition to the writings on marriage.

• Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 1: Liberal Neutrality and Civil Marriage ; Simon C?bulea May ; Chapter 2: Is Civil Marriage Illiberal? ; Ralph Wedgwood ; Chapter 3: The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State ; Clare Chambers ; Chapter 4: Is Marriage Bad for Children? Rethinking the Connection between Having Children, Romantic Love, and Marriage ; Samantha Brennan and Bill Cameron ; Chapter 5: Equality and Non-Hierarchy in Marriage: What Do Feminists Really Want? ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 6: Liberty and Polygamy ; Peter de Marneffe ; Chapter 7: Polygamy, Privacy, and Equality ; Laurie Shrage ; Chapter 8: Temporary Marriage ; Daniel Nolan ; Chapter 9: The (Dis)value of Commitment to One's Spouse ; Anca Gheaus ; Bibliography ; Index

Elizabeth Brake is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. Her book, Minimizing Marriage (Oxford University Press, 2012), won an Honorable Mention for the 2014 APA Book Prize. She has also written on parental rights and obligations, liberal theory, Kant and Hegel, and is currently working on a project on disaster ethics. She has held a Murphy Institute Fellowship at Tulane and a Canadian SSHRC Grant.

... every single essay raises crucial questions about marriage. For this reason alone, and, of course, for others, the book is a welcome and valuable addition to the writings on marriage.

• Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 1: Liberal Neutrality and Civil Marriage ; Simon C?bulea May ; Chapter 2: Is Civil Marriage Illiberal? ; Ralph Wedgwood ; Chapter 3: The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State ; Clare Chambers ; Chapter 4: Is Marriage Bad for Children? Rethinking the Connection between Having Children, Romantic Love, and Marriage ; Samantha Brennan and Bill Cameron ; Chapter 5: Equality and Non-Hierarchy in Marriage: What Do Feminists Really Want? ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 6: Liberty and Polygamy ; Peter de Marneffe ; Chapter 7: Polygamy, Privacy, and Equality ; Laurie Shrage ; Chapter 8: Temporary Marriage ; Daniel Nolan ; Chapter 9: The (Dis)value of Commitment to One's Spouse ; Anca Gheaus ; Bibliography ; Index