TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abbott,Elizabeth
TI  - A history of marriage: from same sex unions to private vows and common law, the surprising diversity of a tradition 
SN  - 9780143017141
AV  - HQ503 .A22 2010
U1  - 306.8109 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Seven Stories Press
KW  - Marriage
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Marriage in history. Husbands and wives: who were they? ; Learning marriage, rites of passage ; Weddings and the married state ; Love and sex in marriage ; Marriage from within four walls ; Go forth and multiply: children at the heart of marriage ; When things went wrong -- Marriage in the present and future. Unmarried and often single ; A gay focus on the nature of marriage ; Children and parenting in modern marriages ; For richer or poorer: marriage and money ; Marriage and race ; Marriage policies ; Issues at the heart of the marriage debate -- Epilogue: Stop sign
N2  - Marriage-- in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations-- comes alive here through Abbott's infectious enthusiasm and curiosity
ER  -