INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

The Architecture of Desire

NYU Press

ISBN: 9781479812356

Pub: 05/05/24

The Architecture of Desire examines how the law influences our most personal and private choices—who we desire and choose as intimate partners—and explores the psychological, economic, and social effects of these choices. Romantic preferences, as shaped by law, perpetuate segregation and subordination by limiting, on the basis of race, individuals’ prospects for marriage and marriage-like commitments, as well as economic and social mobility.

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