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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie CoontzPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Penguin USA Edition: Annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.30cm Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9780143036678ISBN 10: 014303667 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 28 February 2006 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsBrilliant and invariably provocative. . . . Pick a favourite presumption and Ms.Coontz proceeds to unravel the mythical conceit. Author InformationStephanie 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |