History of Marriage - Hardcover
Marriage is at once the most public and most intimate of institutions, and one we generally assume has always taken its now familiar form - yet its long and complex history has included arranged marriages, dowries, child brides and same-sex marriages. This lucid, entertaining and impressively researched study asks what marriage meant to ordinary people 100 or 500 years ago, how long the average marriage lasted, and what were a couples alternatives to staying together.
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Elizabeth Abbott is Research Associate at Trinity College, University of Toronto and, from 1991 to 2004, was Dean of Women. She is the author of several books, including Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Haiti: A Shattered Nation and Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman, all published by Duckworth. She lives in Toronto.
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No thoughtful person - married, celibate, unfaithful or otherwise - should be without this book. -- Mark Kingwell, author of The World We Want Deftly shows how this always fragile, yet always resilient institution has evolved. It's not always a pretty picture but it's a fascinating one. -- Judith Timson, author of Family Matters Elizabeth Abbott has penned a masterpiece ... a wide-ranging account of how the social intersects with many forms of the personal. -- Ahmad Saidullah, author of Happiness and Other Disorders
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- PublisherDuckworth
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0715641700
- ISBN 13 9780715641705
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages460
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