The Mating Trade (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Mullan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032230827 ISBN 13: 9781032230825

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Are marriages made in heaven? In reality many people need a little help in the arrangement of such matters, whether from Jewish shadkhans (matchmakers), go-betweens, computer or video-dating agencies, marriage bureaux, Asian arranged marriages, gay dating agencies or personal ads. Originally published in 1984, the author’s clear-sighted look at the mating trade takes some of the mystique away from the subject and is the first serious and detailed account of the ‘third party’ in marriage.

Dr Mullan looks at the ‘singles scene’ and the ‘arranged marriage’ historically and cross-culturally, and makes it clear that there is nothing necessarily odd or deviant about the mating trade. It is a business like any other, and as long as people continue to want ‘perfect partners’, marriage, permanent relationships, dates and sex, and while evolving social structures make such demands ever more difficult to meet, the business will thrive. It could even expand and grow, but the author believes that first it will have to clean up its act!

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Robert Mullan

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032230827
• ISBN 13: 9781032230825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326