Marriage, a history
Subtitle: from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage
By: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780670034079
Subjects: History; Marriage; Huwelijk; Geschiedenis (vorm)
Description: An analysis of the institution of marriage detailing how marriages have evolved from loveless unions to their current state, in an exposé that reveals the impacts of Victorian-inspired marital intimacy, divorce, and alternative lifestyles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: pt. 1: In search of traditional marriage.  The radical idea of marrying for love; title: The many meanings of marriage; title: The invention of marriage; title: pt. 2: The era of political marriage.  Soap operas of the ancient world; title: Something borrowed : the marital legacy of the classical world and early Christianity; title: Playing the bishop, capturing the queen : aristocratic marriages in early medieval Europe; title: How the other 95 percent wed : marriage among the common folk of the Middle Ages; title: Something old, something new : Western European marriage at the dawn of the modern age; title: pt. 3: The love revolution.  From yoke mates to soul mates : emergence of the love match and the male provider marriage; title: "Two birds within one nest" : sentimental marriage in nineteenth-century Europe and North America; title: "A heaving volcano" : beneath the surface of Victorian marriage; title: "The time when mountains move has come" : from sentimental to sexual marriage; title: Making do, then making babies : marriage in the Great Depression and World War II; title: The era of Ozzie and Harriet : the long decade of "traditional" marriage; title: pt. 4: Courting disaster? : the collapse of universal and lifelong marriage.  Winds of change : marriage in the 1960s and 1970s; title: The perfect storm : the transformation of marriage at the end of the twentieth century; title: Uncharted territory : how the transformation of marriage is changing our lives; title: Conclusion : For better or worse? : the future of marriage.