Moving Past Marriage: Why We Should Ditch Marital Privilege, End Relationship-St

Description: Moving Past Marriage by Jaclyn Geller Married Americans enjoy over 1,000 benefits and entitlements that are withheld from our non-marital counterparts. Health insurance, immigration rights, tax privileges (such as the estate tax), and hiring policies favour the married. Marriage is subsidised and incentivised by the federal government. Social customs such as blockbuster weddings, subsidised honeymoons, and gifts reserved for wedded couples reify matrimony as a cantering norm and further the idea that marriage is best, a commonplace in popular psychology, where marriage-averse people are often tarred as commitment-phobes. Despite this blatant and widespread prejudice, non-marital Americans -non-marital people- have not galvanised as a group to demand equality and inclusion. Why? Moving Past Marriage argues that it is because of our troubled relationship to history. As womens history once was, non-marital history has been buried, so that the disenfranchisement that non-marital people share in wedlock-dominated societies, as well as our remarkable, far-ranging achievements, have been hard to spot. In recovering our own history, non-marital people can become self-aware as a group and begin to challenge marriage-centric thinking and practice. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jaclyn Geller is a reader, writer, and professor. She professes at Central Connecticut State University and specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. She grew up in Southern Westchester, where she read The Sound and the Fury forty times and. Not much else seemed to happen. She studied at English at Oberlin College. After graduation, she worked for a Jewish organization and impressed everyone with her ability to answer the phone, saying, Good morning, Special Projects. When a co-worker clasped her hand and intoned, Dont worry, Dear. Youll be married by next year!, she intuited that it was time to move on. Geller earned her doctorate in English and American Literature at New York University, where she met luminaries such as Adrienne Rich and began what would become a pattern: expressing admiration for learned people, only to have them walk away in the middle of her panegyric. She is the author of Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique as well as articles on early-modern satire, Samuel Butler, and Samuel Johnson. She lives in Central Connecticut with her family and friends. Review Jaclyn Geller identifies a crucial moment of disjunction between social practice and law. More and more, people find happiness and meaning through cohabitation and other non-marital relationships, but American law remains committed to a fading marriage model. The results are costly, including, for example, discrimination by landlords against unmarried couples seeking housing opportunities and familial dislocation from the harsh real-estate tax treatment of non-married cohabitors. Geller offers a fascinating take on a hot topic.--Michael A. Heller, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law, Columbia University and Author of Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives Marriage should not be the gateway to social and economic privilege. In her deeply researched book, Jaclyn Geller explains how true this is and why it matters so much.--Ashton Applewhite, author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriage Do So Well and This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism Think you know about inequality? You may not know about this. Professor Jaclyn Geller gifts us with this vital, brilliant, and compelling expose of a pervasive, consequential, and yet consistently ignored, system of inequality - the one that privileges married people and disadvantages everyone who is not married. A deeply researched argument, told with passion and humor.--Bella DePaulo, Author of How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century Jaclyn Geller demonstrates that the financial, legal, and societal benefits of marriage have a discriminatory flip side: unequal treatment of people who are unmarried. Say I do! to this eye-opening book.--Leora Tanenbaum, author of I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet Review Quote Jaclyn Geller demonstrates that the financial, legal, and societal benefits of marriage have a discriminatory flip side: unequal treatment of people who are unmarried. Say I do! to this eye-opening book. Details ISBN162778246X Author Jaclyn Geller Pages 240 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 162778246X ISBN-13 9781627782463 Format Paperback Imprint Cleis Press Publisher Cleis Press Subtitle Why We Should Ditch Marital Privilege, End Relationship-Status Discrimination, and Embrace Non-marital History Place of Publication San Francisco Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-05-09 NZ Release Date 2023-05-09 UK Release Date 2023-05-25 DEWEY 306.8410973 Audience General Publication Date 2023-03-16 US Release Date 2023-03-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142335821;

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