| Description |
xi, 432 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
In search of traditional marriage -- The radical idea of marrying for love -- The many meanings of marriage -- The invention of marriage -- The era of political marriage -- Soap operas of the ancient world -- Something borrowed: the marital legacy of the classical world and early Christianity -- Playing the Bishop, capturing the queen: Aristocratic marriages in Early Medieval Europe -- How the other 95 percent wed: marriage among the common folk of the middle ages -- Something old, something new: Western European marriage at the dawn of the modern age -- The love revolution -- From yoke mates to soul mates: emergence of the love match and the male provider marriage -- "Two birds within one nest": sentimental marriage in nineteenth-century Europe and North America -- "A heaving volcano": beneath the surface of Victorian marriage -- "The time when mountains move has come": from sentimental to sexual marriage -- Making do, then making babies: marriage in the Great Depression and World War II -- The era of Ozzie and Harriet: the long decade of "traditional" marriage -- Courting disaster? The collapse of universal and lifelong marriage -- Winds of change: marriage in the 1960s and 1970s -- The perfect storm: the transformation of marriage at the end of the twentieth century -- Uncharted territory: how the transformation of marriage is changing our lives -- Better or worse? The future of marriage. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- History.
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| ISBN |
014303667X |
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9780143036678 |
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