TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coontz,Stephanie
TI  - Marriage, a history: from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage 
SN  - 067003407X
AV  - HQ503 .C66 2005
U1  - 306.8109 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Marriage
KW  - History
N1  - 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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