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1 (p1): 1 Introduction: Contemporary Contexts 19 (p2): 2 Sex and Utility 35 (p3): 3 Making a Marriage 51 (p4): 4 The Subordination of Women 71 (p5): 5 ‘Offences against domestic conditions’ 91 (p6): 6 Adultery 117 (p7): 7 Divorce and Separation 139 (p8): 8 Afterword 143 (p9): Notes 175 (p10): Bibliography 189 (p11): Index \"Jeremy Bentham's law of marriage is firmly based on the principle of utility, which claims that all human actions are governed by a wish to gain pleasure and avoid pain, and on the proposition that men and women are equal. He wrote in a late eighteenth century context of Enlightenment debate about the status of women, marriage and the family, as did his contemporaries Wollstonecraft and More. Bentham responded particularly to the thought of Milton, Locke, Hume, Paley and to the French thinkers Montesquieu, Diderot and Rousseau. These were the turbulent years leading to the French Revolution and it is in this milieu that Mary Sokol seeks to rediscover the 'historical' Bentham. Instead of regarding his thought as 'timeless', she considers Bentham's attitude to the reform of marriage law and plans for the social reform of marriage, placing both his life and work in

Author

LAW AND MARRIAGE:A UTILITARIAN CODE OF LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS, Sokol, Mary, Mary Sokol

Publisher

MARY SOKOL,CONTINUUM

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613163219

Subjects

Law, Philosophy, Humanities