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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Abbott |
| ISBN: | 9781609800888 1609800885 |
| OCLC Number: | 669755052 |
| Notes: | Originally published in Canada by Penguin Group (Canada), 2010 --T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xii, 460 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Marriage in history. Husbands and wives: who were they? ; Learning marriage, rites of passage ; Weddings and the married state ; Love and sex in marriage ; Marriage from within four walls ; Go forth and multiply: children at the heart of marriage ; When things went wrong -- Marriage in the present and future. Unmarried and often single ; A gay focus on the nature of marriage ; Children and parenting in modern marriages ; For richer or poorer: marriage and money ; Marriage and race ; Marriage policies ; Issues at the heart of the marriage debate -- Epilogue: Stop sign. |
| Responsibility: | Elizabeth Abbott. |
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Abstract:
Marriage-- in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations-- comes alive here through Abbott's infectious enthusiasm and curiosity.
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