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Marriage, a history : from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage / Stephanie Coontz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2005Description: xi, 432 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067003407X
  • 9780670034079
  • 014303667X
  • 9780143036678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8109 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ503 .C66 2005
Contents:
Ch. 1. The radical idea of marrying for love -- Ch. 2. The many meanings of marriage -- Ch. 3. The invention of marriage -- Ch. 4. Soap operas of the ancient world -- Ch. 5. Something borrowed : the marital legacy of the classical world and early Christianity -- Ch. 6. Playing the bishop, capturing the queen : aristocratic marriages in early medieval Europe -- Ch. 7. How the other 95 percent wed : marriage among the common folk of the Middle Ages -- Ch. 8. Something old, something new : Western European marriage at the dawn of the modern age -- Ch. 9. From yoke mates to soul mates : emergence of the love match and the male provider marriage -- Ch. 10. "Two birds within one nest" : sentimental marriage in nineteenth-century Europe and North America -- Ch. 11. "A heaving volcano" : beneath the surface of Victorian marriage -- Ch. 12. "The time when mountains move has come" : from sentimental to sexual marriage -- Ch. 13. Making do, then making babies : marriage in the Great Depression and World War II -- Ch. 14. The era of Ozzie and Harriet : the long decade of "traditional" marriage -- Ch. 15. Winds of change : marriage in the 1960s and 1970s -- Ch. 16. The perfect storm : the transformation of marriage at the end of the twentieth century -- Ch. 17. Uncharted territory : how the transformation of marriage is changing our lives -- Conclusion : better or worse? : The future of marriage.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. The radical idea of marrying for love -- Ch. 2. The many meanings of marriage -- Ch. 3. The invention of marriage -- Ch. 4. Soap operas of the ancient world -- Ch. 5. Something borrowed : the marital legacy of the classical world and early Christianity -- Ch. 6. Playing the bishop, capturing the queen : aristocratic marriages in early medieval Europe -- Ch. 7. How the other 95 percent wed : marriage among the common folk of the Middle Ages -- Ch. 8. Something old, something new : Western European marriage at the dawn of the modern age -- Ch. 9. From yoke mates to soul mates : emergence of the love match and the male provider marriage -- Ch. 10. "Two birds within one nest" : sentimental marriage in nineteenth-century Europe and North America -- Ch. 11. "A heaving volcano" : beneath the surface of Victorian marriage -- Ch. 12. "The time when mountains move has come" : from sentimental to sexual marriage -- Ch. 13. Making do, then making babies : marriage in the Great Depression and World War II -- Ch. 14. The era of Ozzie and Harriet : the long decade of "traditional" marriage -- Ch. 15. Winds of change : marriage in the 1960s and 1970s -- Ch. 16. The perfect storm : the transformation of marriage at the end of the twentieth century -- Ch. 17. Uncharted territory : how the transformation of marriage is changing our lives -- Conclusion : better or worse? : The future of marriage.

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