I Don't A Contrarian History of Marriage

Name: I Don't A Contrarian History of Marriage
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ISBN: 9781582341194

ISBN-10: 1582341192

ISBN-13: 9781582341194

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susan Squire

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A provocative survey of marriage and what it has meant for society, politics, religion, and the home. For ten thousand years, marriage—and the idea of marriage—has been at the very foundation of human society. In this provocative and ambitious book, Susan Squire unravels the turbulent history and many implications of our most basic institution. Starting with the discovery, long before recorded time, that sex leads to paternity (and hence to couplehood), and leading up to the dawn of the modern “love marriage,” Squire delves into the many ways men and women have come together and what the state of their unions has meant for history, society, and politics – especially the politics of the…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



A Note to the Reader


Prologue



Paradise Lost, Just Because He Listened to His Wife



Struck Dead, Just Because He Spilled the Fruit of His Loins



Do Athenian Husbands Have It All?



Do Roman Wives Have It All?



The Cure for Lust



Original Spin



Never on Sunday. (Or Wednesday. Or Friday. Or Saturday.)



The Making of a Sexless Marriage



Cuckold's Lament



The Golden Age of Adultery



The End of the World?



What a Man Wants



Season of the Witch



Be Fertile and Increase-The Sequel



Love Meets Marriage: A New Idea


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index