Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

Just when the clamor over traditional marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to...
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Author: Stephanie Coontz
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Coontz, Stephanie

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

$45.30

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

$45.30
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Just when the clamor over traditional marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, What tradition? In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is--and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today's marital debate.

Author: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/28/2006
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.60w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780143036678
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/14/2006 pg. 36
Newsweek 04/19/2010 pg. 24

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


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