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Introduction | |
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Where Are We Now? Assessing Our Situation | |
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Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat | |
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Stone, "Passionate Attachments in the West in Historical Perspective" | |
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Bloom, "Relationships" | |
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Blankenhorn, "I Do?" | |
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Why Marry? Defenses of Matrimony | |
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Darwin, "This is the Question" | |
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Aquinas, "Of the Marriage Goods" | |
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Erasmus, "A Praise of Marriage" | |
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Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life" | |
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Austen, Pride and Prejudice: For Love or Money? | |
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Kierkegaard, "Some Reflections on Marriage" | |
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Tucker, "Monogamy and Its Discontents" | |
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Meilaender, "Men and Women--Can We Be Friends?" | |
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Borowitz, "Speaking Personally" | |
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Muir, "The Annunciation" | |
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What About Sex? Man, Woman, and Sexuality | |
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Homer, The Coupling of Ares and Aphrodite | |
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Genesis 2:4-4:2: The Anthropology of Sex | |
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Rousseau, Emile: Sexual Complementarity | |
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Herodotus, The Story of Candaules and Gyges | |
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Kant, On Shame and Love | |
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Riezler, "Comment on the Social Psychology of Shame" | |
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May, "Four Mischievous Theories of Sex" | |
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Is This Love? Eros and Its Aims | |
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Divakaruni, "The Word Love" | |
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Plato, Symposium: Aristophanes' Speech on Eros | |
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Plato, Symposium: Socrates' Speech on Eros | |
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The Song of Songs | |
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De Rougemont, "The Tristan Myth" | |
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Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | |
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Rousseau, Emile: Educating for Love | |
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Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 115, and 116 | |
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Rilke, Letters on Love | |
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Lewis, "Eros" | |
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How Can I Find and Win the Right One? Courtship | |
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Martin, Miss Manners' Advice on Courtship | |
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Genesis 24: Finding a Wife for Isaac | |
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Genesis 29-31: Jacob Finds a Wife | |
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Abraham, "The Engagement: A Story" | |
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Pitt-Rivers, The People of the Sierra | |
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Erasmus, "Courtship": A Colloquy | |
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Shakespeare, The Tempest | |
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Shakespeare, As You Like It | |
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Franklin, "Reflections on Courtship and Marriage" | |
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Franklin, "The Elysian Fields" | |
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Rousseau, Emile: The Courtship of Emile and Sophie | |
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Tolstoy, War and Peace: The Courtship of Pierre and Helene | |
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Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: Levin's Proposal to Kitty | |
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Austen, Pride and Prejudice: The Courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth | |
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Why A Wedding? The Promises of Marriage | |
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May, "The Covenant of Marriage" | |
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Marriage Vows and Blessings | |
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De Rougemont, "Active Love, or Keeping Faith" | |
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Kass and Kass, The Marriage Name | |
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What Can Married Life Be Like? The Blessings of Married Life | |
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Homer, The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus | |
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Aristotle, The Friendship of Husband and Wife | |
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Jewish Midrash, Childless Love | |
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Kipling, "The Married Man: Reservist of the Line" | |
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Ballou, Letter to Sarah | |
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Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Marriage and Mores | |
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Rousseau, Emile: Married Lovers | |
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Kierkegaard, Lasting Love | |
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Capon, Bed and Board: Liturgies of Home | |
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Tolstoy, War and Peace, First Epilogue: Parents and Children | |
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Frost, "The Master Speed" | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Sources and Credits | |