01505nam a22002297a 4500 AUWbook010767 BDCtgAUW 20260407093744.0 250426b bg ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300271935 BDCtgAUW BDCtgAUW HQ503.B38 Baum, Devorah, Author. 76851 On marriage. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023. 323 pages ; 23 cm "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" Marriage Social aspects Religious aspects. 76852 BRAC 2982 lcc BK 0 0 0 lcc 0 0 AUWL AUWL GEN 2025-04-22 Kamal Ahmad (AUWSF) HQ503.B38 031695 2025-04-26 00:00:00 01 2025-04-26 BK 14243 14243