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A History of Marriage

✍ Scribed by Abbott, Elizabeth

Book ID: 108061068
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, dowries, self-marriages, and child brides. Marriage--in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations--is revealed here through Abbott's infectious curiosity.

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