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A History of Marriage: From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition
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A History of Marriage: From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition

Elizabeth Abbott
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What does the tradition of marriage really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, dowries, self-marriages, and child brides. Marriage-in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations-is revealed here through Abbott’s infectious curiosity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Date
11 August 2015
Pages
496
ISBN
9781609806194

What does the tradition of marriage really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, dowries, self-marriages, and child brides. Marriage-in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations-is revealed here through Abbott’s infectious curiosity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Date
11 August 2015
Pages
496
ISBN
9781609806194

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