Publication
Bloomsbury Academic (2023), 256 pages
ISBN
1350355658 / 9781350355651
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Courtship and Rites: A Survey of the World’s Family Systems
2 Religion: Between the Sacred and the Secular—Changes in Marital Life around the World
3 State and Law: Four Models for Regulating Marriage
4 The Ties That Bind: Family and Kinship in Europe and Asia
5 The Family Economy: Families, Work, and Marriage in the Western and Non-Western World
6 Love, Sex, and Sexuality: Balancing Economic Considerations, Sociocultural Expectations, and Personal Desires
7 Breaking Vows: Divorce in European and North American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
8 Representations of Marriage: The Intricate Development of Bourgeois Marriage in Western Europe
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Courtship and Rites: A Survey of the World’s Family Systems
2 Religion: Between the Sacred and the Secular—Changes in Marital Life around the World
3 State and Law: Four Models for Regulating Marriage
4 The Ties That Bind: Family and Kinship in Europe and Asia
5 The Family Economy: Families, Work, and Marriage in the Western and Non-Western World
6 Love, Sex, and Sexuality: Balancing Economic Considerations, Sociocultural Expectations, and Personal Desires
7 Breaking Vows: Divorce in European and North American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
8 Representations of Marriage: The Intricate Development of Bourgeois Marriage in Western Europe
Notes
Bibliography
Index