Marriage, a history : from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage /
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New York :
Viking,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1: In search of traditional marriage. The radical idea of marrying for love
- The many meanings of marriage
- The invention of marriage
- pt. 2: 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
- pt. 3: 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
- pt. 4: 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
- Conclusion : For better or worse? : the future of marriage.