Minimizing marriage: marriage, morality, and the law

Introduction: marriage and philosophy

1. De-moralizing marriage

The marriage promise: is divorce promise-breaking?

How to commit marriage: a conceptual guide

Marriage, sex, and morals

Special treatment for lovers: marriage, care, and amatonormativity

2. Democratizing marriage

Critiques of marriage: an essentially unjust institution?

Defining marriage: political liberalism and the same-sex marriage debates

Minimizing marriage: what political liberalism implies for marriage law

Challenges for minimal marriage: poverty, property, polygyny.