Summary
Elizabeth Abbott: A History of Marriage
From same-sex unions to personal vows and common-law unions, the surprising diversity of one tradition
"The subtext of The History of Marriage is the connection between the past and the present, where we have been and how far it has brought us." People argue about marriage, cry about it, and celebrate it because it matters on so many intertwined levels, emotionally, logistically, socially, and financially. The history of marriage follows its evolution as an institution through the lens of law, custom and religion. It also explores the facts of marriage in which individuals lived in the context of love and duty, sex and loyalty, raising children and living together, joint finances and social recognition.
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