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The Purchase of Intimacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Viviana A. Zelizer
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Students of the intersection between monetary transfers and intimate social relations face a choice among three ways of analyzing that relationship: as hostile worlds whose contact contaminates one or the other; as nothing but market transactions, cultural constructions, or coercion; or as differentiated ties, each marked by a distinctive set of monetary transfers. A review of payment practices, legal disputes, and recent legal theory illustrates the weakness of the first two views and the desirability of further pursuing the third alternative.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Summer 2000 , pp. 817 - 848
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2000 

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