01436nam a22002057a 4500001001400000003000900014005001700023008004100040020001800081040002500099050001400124100002800138245001700166260004700183300002300230520090900253650004901162887001001211888000901221AUWbook010767BDCtgAUW20260407093744.0250426b        bg ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780300271935  aaBDCtgAUWcBDCtgAUW  aHQ503.B381 aBaum, Devorah,eAuthor. 0aOn marriage.  aNew Haven :bYale University Press,c2023.  a323 pages ;c23 cm  a"Coupled or uncoupled, none of us lives outside the cultural and psychological influence of marriage. But why has this ancient and highly contested practice remained relevant for so many? Is it an act of love, a leap of faith, a holy bond, a contractual commitment, a bid for security, a framework for family, a hedge against loneliness? Or could it conceal something a bit more radical? Drawing on philosophy, film, literature, psychoanalysis, and music, Baum considers the understudied idea and practice of marriage: as organizing principle, as creation, as conversation, as afterlife-and as a cover story for power and its abuses. What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we really doing when we say "I do"? Entertaining, illuminating, candid and consoling, On Marriage critiques and celebrates the many contradictions of matrimony and its profound effects on us all" 0aMarriagexSocial aspectsxReligious aspects.  a BRAC  22982