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How Love Conquered Marriage
Penguin
March 2006
On Sale: February 28, 2006
448 pages
ISBN: 014303667X
EAN: 9780143036678
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Non-Fiction
Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things
that have made it so have also made a good marriage more
fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely
entertaining book, historian and marriage expert Stephanie
Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient
Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian couples 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 only 200 years ago that marriage began to be about
love and emotional commitment, and since then the very
things that have strengthened marriage as a personal
relationship have steadily weakened it as a social
institution. Marriage, A History brings intelligence,
wit, and some badly needed perspective to today's marital
debates and dilemmas.
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