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When considered in the light of history, "traditional marriage"the purportedly time-honored institution some argue is in crisis thanks to rising rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births, not to mention gay marriageis not so traditional at all. Indeed, Coontz ( The Way We Never Were ) argues, marriage has always been in flux, and "almost every marital and sexual arrangement we have seen in recent years, however startling it may appear, has been tried somewhere before." Based on extensive research (hers and others'), Coontz's fascinating study places current concepts of marriage in broad historical context, revealing that there is much more to "I do" than meets the eye. In ancient Rome, no distinction was made between cohabitation and marriage; during the Middle Ages, marriage was regarded less as a bond of love than as a " 'career' decision"; in the Victorian era, the increasingly important idea of true love "undermined the gender hierarchy of the home" (in the past, menrulers of the householdwere encouraged to punish insufficiently obedient wives). Coontz explains marriage as a way of ensuring a domestic labor force, as a political tool and as a flexible reflection of changing so

Who reads Marriage, a History : from Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage?

Author

Coontz, Stephanie

Publisher

Viking Penguin

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101118252

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Gender Studies, Social Science

Rating

3.94 / 5 (1,645 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14