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Introduction
Part One: In Search of Traditional Marriage
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Conclusion
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Notes