| Missing nonfiction? |
[May. 7th, 2008|09:44 pm] |
Okay. So, about two? years ago, I read this really good book about marriage. It was a history of marriage and divorce laws, as well as social attitudes toward them, from the Middle Ages up to modern day. There was a particular focus on the idea of love based marriage and its relatively recent development. The book was roughly chronological in presentation.
The author was a woman- Allison someone, perhaps? I think it was some kind of A name. It was geared towards the lay audience- I think I may have seen the author on the Today Show- but it was a pretty well researched, entertainingly written book.
And, uh, the cover was reddish. I think.
Any clues?
Found! Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz |
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I suspect you're in luck. I just finished a paper on gay marriage rights for my sociology class last week and I'll be shocked if you're not referring to this one:
Coontz, Stephanie. (2005). Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Penguin Books.
Howls,
Werewulf
PS: If that's not it, shoot me an email through LJ addresss and I'll send you my entire bibliography.. I definitely read the book you're talking about.
Ahaha, that's the one! Thank you!
There's an off chance it could be Marilyn Yalom's A History of the Wife--it goes back to the ancients, if I recall correctly, and it focuses on the experience of women, but it is chronological in presentation. It was published in 2002.
Nope, not that one. I have that one. I'm also voting on Marriage, A History. | |
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