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A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age (The Cultural Histories Series) by Joanne Marie Ferraro; Karen K Hersch; Edward Behrend-Martínez; Paul Puschmann; Christina Simmons is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. In the developing world, the economic, social, and legal foundations of traditional marriage are stronger but also weakening. Marriage changed because an industrial wage economy reduced familial patriarchal control of youth and women and spurred demands and possibilities for greater autonomy and choice in love. After the Second World War, when more married women pursued education and employment, and gays and lesbians gained visibility, feminism and gay liberation also challenged patriarchal and restrictive gender roles and helped to reshape marriage. In 1920 most people married for life; in the twenty-first century fewer marry, and serial monogamy prevails. Marriage is more diverse and flexible in form but also more fragile and optional than it once was. Over the century control of courtship shifted from parents to youth, and friends, as opposed to kin, became more important in sustaining marriages. Dual-wage-earner families replaced the male breadwinner. Social and political liberalism assailed conservative laws

Who reads A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age (The Cultural Histories Series)?

Author

Joanne Marie Ferraro; Karen K Hersch; Edward Behrend-Martínez; Paul Puschmann; Christina Simmons

Publisher

Bloomsbury UK

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350001893

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Gender Studies