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For Better, For Worse : British Marriages, 1600 to the Present.
Did you know that...The "contemporary" fashion of living together before marriage is far from new, and was frequently practiced in earlier days...Self-divorce, although never legal, was once a commonplace occurrence...Marriage is more popular today than in the Victorian era...Marriage inch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA
1985.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part I: Courtship and Marriage in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- 1. Neither Single nor Actually Married: Courtship and Betrothal in a Homosocial World
- 2. A Maie Game of Marriage: The Politics of Big Weddings
- 3. Neither Birth nor Portion Shall Hinder the Match: Clandestine Marriage and Sexual Nonconformity
- Part II: Conflict and Change in the Age of Agrarian and Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
- 4. The Better Man of the Two: Changing Relations between the Sexes, 1750-1850.
- 5. Time Changes Fau'k an' Manners: Private Marriages versus Public Bridals
- 6. The Last Stage of Their Hope: From the Celibate to the Conjugal City
- 7. Married but not Churched: Common-Law Marriage and the Renewal of Sexual Nonconformity
- Part III: The Era of Mandatory Marriage, 1850-1960
- 8. Better a Bad Husband Than No Husband at All: The Compulsion to Marry, 1850-1914
- 9. Love on the Dole: The Ritualization of Courtship in the Twentieth Century
- 10. The Lady Generally Likes White Weddings: Revival of the Big Wedding.
- Part IV: Conjugal Myths and Marital Realities, 1960 to the Present
- 11. Love and Marriage: The Unresolved Contradiction
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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