Marriage, a History
How Love Conquered Marriage
How Love Conquered Marriage
By Stephanie Coontz
By Stephanie Coontz
By Stephanie Coontz
By Stephanie Coontz
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Paperback $20.00
Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780143036678
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Table Of Contents
Part One: In Search of Traditional Marriage
Chapter 1: The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love
Chapter 2: The Many Meanings of Marriage
Chapter 3: The Invention of Marriage
Part Two: The Era of Political Marriage
Chapter 4: Soap Operas of the Ancient World
Chapter 5: Something Borrowed: The Marital Legacy of the Classical World and Early Christianity
Chapter 6: Playing the Bishop, Capturing the Queen: Aristocratic Marriages in Early Medieval Europe
Chapter 7: How the Other 95 Percent Wed: Marriage Among the Common Folk of the Middle Ages
Chapter 8: Something Old, Something New: Western European Marriage at the Dawn of the Modern Age
Part Three: The Love Revolution
Chapter 9: From Yoke Mates to Soul Mates: Emergence of the Love Match and the Male Provider Marriage
Chapter 10: “Two Birds Within One Nest”: Sentimental Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America
Chapter 11: “A Heaving Volcano”: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Marriage
Chapter 12: “The Time When Mountains Move Has Come”: From Sentimental to Sexual Marriage
Chapter 13: Making Do, Then Making Babies: Marriage in the Great Depression and World War II
Chapter 14: The Era of Ozzie and Harriet: The Long Decade of “Traditional” Marriage
Part Four: Courting Disaster? The Collapse of Universal and Lifelong Marriage
Chapter 15: Winds of Change: Marriage in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 16: The Perfect Storm: The Transformation of Marriage at the End of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 17: Uncharted Territory: How the Transformation of Marriage Is Changing Our Lives
Conclusion: Better or Worse? The Future of Marriage
Conclusion
Notes
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