Family and minimal marriage
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Vera Tripodi
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/47
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 39-52 File size 9997 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2013-047004
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
The present article examines a recent proposal defended by Elizabeth Brake of a new and innovative form of marriage, that she labels «minimal marriage». According to Brake, the current marital laws are discriminatory as they are grounded on «heteronormativity», namely the idea that the dyadic heterosexual marriages are the family norm and the only model that is worth of social recognition, and «amatonormativity», the idea that the only dyadic intimate relationships involving romantic love are the nucleus of the family. In the first part of the article, I show that dyadic monogamous relationships are essentially a form of adult caring relationship. In the second part, I analyse how the reform of the marriage laws (in minimal terms proposed by Brake) allow other forms of caring relationship to receive social and institutional recognition.
Vera Tripodi, Famiglia e matrimonio minimo in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 47/2013, pp 39-52, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2013-047004