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Marriage, a History - How Love Conquered Marriage (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Marriage, a History - How Love Conquered Marriage (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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In this surprising landmark book, family historian Stephanie Coontz
explodes every cherished assumption about marriage, starting with
the notion of the traditional marriage. Forget Ozzie and Harriet.
Coontz reveals that through most of history, marriage was not a
relationship based on mutual love between a breadwinner husband and
an at-home wife but an institution devoted to acquiring in-laws and
improving the family labor force. How did marriage evolve from the
loveless, arranged unions that have endured from the dawn of
civilization into the sexualized, volatile relationships of today?
Coontz argues that the Victorians, with their radical emphasis on
marital intimacy and celebration of the individual, simultaneously
made marriage more satisfying and paved the way for alternative
lifestyles to thrive: divorce, gay marriage, living together,
single parenting. The diminished role of heterosexual marriage in
our society is not an aberration, insists Coontz, but the
consequence of centuries of irrevocable social change. "Marriage, A
History is an engaging narrative of astonishing scope and depth
that will stand as a milestone of social history and provoke debate
for years to come.
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