Part One: In Search of Traditional Marriage
Chapter 1: The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love
Chapter 2: The Many Meanings of Marriage
Chapter 3: The Invention of Marriage
Part Two: The Era of Political Marriage
Chapter 4: Soap Operas of the Ancient World
Chapter 5: Something Borrowed: The Marital Legacy of the Classical
World and Early Christianity
Chapter 6: Playing the Bishop, Capturing the Queen: Aristocratic
Marriages in Early Medieval Europe
Chapter 7: How the Other 95 Percent Wed: Marriage Among the Common
Folk of the Middle Ages
Chapter 8: Something Old, Something New: Western European Marriage
at the Dawn of the Modern Age
Part Three: The Love Revolution
Chapter 9: From Yoke Mates to Soul Mates: Emergence of the Love
Match and the Male Provider Marriage
Chapter 10: "Two Birds Within One Nest": Sentimental Marriage in
Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America
Chapter 11: "A Heaving Volcano": Beneath the Surface of Victorian
Marriage
Chapter 12: "The Time When Mountains Move Has Come": From
Sentimental to Sexual Marriage
Chapter 13: Making Do, Then Making Babies: Marriage in the Great
Depression and World War II
Chapter 14: The Era of Ozzie and Harriet: The Long Decade of
"Traditional" Marriage
Part Four: Courting Disaster? The Collapse of Universal and
Lifelong Marriage
Chapter 15: Winds of Change: Marriage in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 16: The Perfect Storm: The Transformation of Marriage at
the End of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 17: Uncharted Territory: How the Transformation of Marriage
Is Changing Our Lives
Conclusion: Better or Worse? The Future of
Marriage
Conclusion
Notes
Stephanie Coontz is the Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families and teaches history and family studies at The Evergeen State College in Olympia, Washington. She divides her time between Makaha, Hawaii, and Washington. The author of the award-winning The Way We Never Were- American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, she writes about marriage and family issues in many national journals including The Washington Post, Harper's, Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.On the web-http-//www.stephaniecoontz.com
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