Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage - Hardcover

Coontz, Stephanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067003407X ISBN 13: 9780670034079

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A historical analysis of the traditional institution of marriage traces its role as a practice designed to acquire favorable in-laws and improve a family's labor force, detailing how marriages have evolved from loveless, arranged unions to their present-day state, in an exposé that reveals the impact of Victorian-inspired marital intimacy, divorce, and alternative lifestyles.

About this title

Review:

"Brilliant and invariably provocative. . . . Pick a favourite presumption and Ms.Coontz proceeds to unravel the mythical conceit."

About the Author:

Stephanie Coontz is the Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families and teaches history and family studies at The Evergeen State College in Olympia, Washington. She divides her time between Makaha, Hawaii, and Washington. The author of the award-winning The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, she writes about marriage and family issues in many national journals including The Washington Post, Harper's, Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.

On the web: http: //www.stephaniecoontz.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 067003407X
• ISBN 13: 9780670034079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432