A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom
How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become associated with romantic love? If the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what does it mean for women today? In this social, legal, and cultural history of women and matrimony in the Judeo-Christian world, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom charts the evolution of marriage through the ages, and shows how radically our ideas have changed.
A History of the Wife is a study of laws, religious practices, social customs, economic patterns, and political consciousness that have affected generations of wives. Yalom also discusses women who have rebelled against the matrimonial conventions of their times, including Marjorie Kempe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Sanger. This gripping historical analysis of marriage sheds new light on an institution most people take for granted, and one that is experiencing its most convulsive upheaval since the Reformation.Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness."The first truly comprehensive history of the female spousal experience ... There are precious few views of marriage or the family to which this book can be compared." -- Library JournalMarilyn Yalom was a former professor of French and a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She was the author of widely acclaimed books such as A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, and, most recently, How the French Invented Love. She lived in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060931568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060931566 |
| Title | A History of the Wife |
| Author | Marilyn Yalom |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2002-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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