Marriage, a History

by Stephanie Coontz

  advice books and

  of aristocracy

  Canterbury Tales and

  of common folk

  memoirs and

  service employment and

  in urban areas

  middle class

  moral concerns of

  in 1950s

  restriction of childbearing in

  sexual revolution and

  Victorian

  welfare programs and

  Middle East

  military

  alliances and peace treaties ; see also political marriages

  mills

  Mills, John Stuart

  Milton, John

  Minangkabau

  mistresses

  Moby-Dick (Melville)

  Modell, John

  Modern Woman, The: The Lost Sex (Farnham and Lundberg)

  monasteries

  monogamy

  Montaigne, Michel de

  Moquiuixtli

  morality

  “fun,”

  of men

  of women

  Moral Majority

  More, Hannah

  Mormons

  Moses

  Moskowitz, Eva

  movies

  moving, at time of marriage

  murder

  Murdock, George Peter

  Murngin

  Murray, Judith Sargent

  Muslims

  Must You Conform? (Lindner)

  mut‘a

  Na

  Napoleon

  Napoleonic Code

  Nastok, Edmund de

  Native Americans

  Blackfoot, marriage fable of

  exchange of men among

  Plains

  sharing among

  Nefertiti

  Nelson, Margaret

  Nepal

  Nepos, Cornelius

  Nero, Claudius

  New Guinea

  Newsome, Gavin

  Newsweek

  New York Female Moral Reform Society

  New York Times Magazine

  New Zealand

  Nigeria

  Nisbet, Robert

  Nitocris

  Nixon, Richard

  nobility, see aristocracy

  novels

  nuclear family

  Athenian democracy and

  hunter-gatherer societies and

  independence of

  living arrangements and

  narrowing of activities and affections to

  privacy of

  and sentimentalization of marriage

  worldwide evolution toward see also family; male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages

  nutrition

  Oaks, Gladys

  Octavia

  Octavian (Augustus)

  O’Day, Rosemary

  Open Marriage (McNeil and McNeil)

  Orenstein, Peggy

  Oresteia, The (Aeschylus)

  Otto IV

  Owram, Doug

  Ozzie and Harriet

  Palestine

  Pallier, Elizabeth

  Palmer, Alice

  papacy, see popes

  Parker-Bowles, Camilla

  Parr, Catherine

  Parsons, Talcott

  Paston, Elizabeth

  patriarchal power

  egalitarianism and

  revolutions and

  Paul, Saint

  Peabody, Sophia

  peasants and farmers

  adulthood and

  marital division of labor among

  middle-class family values and

  serfdom and

  Penn, William

  Pepys, Samuel

  Perch, Comtesse du

  Pericles

  Peters, Joan

  Peterson, Ruth

  Peter the Great

  Philip of Flanders, Count

  Phillips, Roderick

  plague

  Plato

  Playboy

  plowing

  Plutarch

  Pockels. F.

  political marriages

  in ancient world

  Antony and Cleopatra and

  in Byzantine Empire

  Christian Church and

  in medieval Europe

  military alliances and

  Octavian and

  parental arrangement of, in Middle Ages see also aristocracy

  politics:

  family model based on

  home as refuge from

  women’s place in

  polygamy

  cospousal arrangements

  medieval kings and

  prohibition of

  Popenoe, Paul

  popes

  Boniface IV

  Charlemagne and

  Gregory II

  Gregory VII

  Gregory the Great

  Henry VIII and

  Lothar and

  Protestant Reformation and

  Stephen

  Zachary

  pornography

  postfeminism

  poverty see also lower class

  pregnancy, see childbirth

  prehistoric times

  primates

  primogeniture

  privacy

  property

  husband’s control of

  inheritance of, see inheritance of property

  marriage contracts and

  wife’s rights to

  see also economic aspects of marriage

  prostitution

  Protestant Reformation

  Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

  Proverbs, Book of

  Prussia

  Ptolemy II

  Ptolemy III

  Ptolemy XIII

  Ptolemy XIV

  Pulcheria

  purity, female

  in ancient world

  men’s emulation of

  Qatna

  Queen for a Day

  queens:

  and inheritance of nobility

  see also aristocracy

  Quintilian

  Raoul I of Coucy

  rape

  Redbook

  Reed, Donna

  reform movements

  Reiss, Ira

  religion

  Christian, see Christian Church

  Judaism

  revival movements

  remarriage

  Christian Church and

  Eskimo and

  Renfrew, Colin

  Richardson, Samuel

  rights

  civil rights movement

  of women, see women’s rights

  Robinson, William

  Roddenberry, Seaborn

  Rodman, Henrietta

  Roe v. Wade

  Rogers, Anna

  Rogers, Stacy

  Roman Catholic Church, see Christian Church

  Rome, ancient

  Antony and Cleopatra and

  aristocracy in

  divorce in

  fall of

  freewoman/slave marriages in

  marriage in

  Pulcheria in

  women in

  Rosenteur, Phyllis

  “Rosie the Riveter,”

  Rousseau, Jean Jacques

  Rout, Ettie

  Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain

  royalty, see aristocracy

  Ruggles, Steven

  Rukuba

  Russia

  Ryman, Frederick

  same-sex marriages

  Sanger, Margaret

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Saudi Arabia

  Scandinavia

  Schlafly, Phyllis

  Schmalhausen, Samuel

  Schwartz, Pepper

  sea horses

  Seccombe, Wally

  Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir)

  secret marriages

  Sedgwick, Catharine

  Seefeldt, Kristin

  Segalen, Martine

  selection effects<
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  Seleucids

  Seneca

  servant(s)

  family-centered life and

  working as

  Severus, Alexander

  Severus, Septimus

  sex

  age of consent for

  Christian attitudes toward

  contemporary expectations about

  cospousal arrangements and

  courtship and dating

  domestic containment and

  double standard and

  education and information about

  extramarital ; see also adultery

  fallen women and

  gender roles and

  husband’s authority and

  love and

  marriage validation and

  mass culture and

  medieval aristocratic marriages and

  medieval view of women and

  Middle Eastern temporary marriages and

  in Na society

  oral

  and origins of marriage

  premarital

  revolution in

  same-sex friendships and

  and supervision of women

  twentieth-century revolution in

  Victorians and

  wedding night and

  women’s purity and

  sexually transmitted diseases

  Shakur, Assata

  sharing and reciprocity

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shepherd, Margery

  Shotoku

  Shulman, Alix Kates

  siblings

  incest and

  marriage of, in Egypt

  Silver Cord, The

  Singapore

  singlehood

  single parents

  Sirjamaki, John

  Slater, Miriam

  slaves

  in Greece

  in Rome

  in U.S.

  Smith, Daniel Scott

  Smith, Joan

  Smock, Pamela

  Social Security

  social purity movement

  social status

  marriage restrictions and

  marrying up and

  see also political marriages

  Socrates

  sodomy laws

  solitary living

  Solon

  Somerset, Duke of

  South America

  South Pacific

  Soviet Union

  Spain

  spinsters

  use of word

  spirit marriages

  Spock, Benjamin

  Spurlock, John

  Sri Lanka

  Stafford, Elizabeth

  Stafford, Pauline

  Stearns, Peter

  Steinem, Gloria

  stepfamilies

  Stephen, Pope

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stevenson, Betsey

  Stocker, Helene

  Stone, Lucy

  Stopes, Marie

  Story of Mary MacLane by Herself, The

  Strecker, Edward

  Strong, Charles

  Strozzi, Alessandra Macinghi

  suburbia

  Sudan

  Suetonius

  Suffolk, Duchess of

  suicide

  Sumner, William

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Sweden

  Switzerland

  Syria

  Taine, Hippolyte

  Taita

  Talbot, James Beard

  Talmud

  taxes

  Taylor, Harriet

  television

  temperance movement

  Terentia

  Texcoco

  Thanksgiving

  Thebes

  Theodosius

  Theutberga

  Tiberius

  Tibet

  Time

  Tiy

  Tlatelolco

  Toda

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Torah

  Torald, Thomas

  Tosh, John

  tradesmen and craftsmen

  tyrants

  Ullman, Sharon

  United Arab Emirates

  United Nations

  upper class, see aristocracy

  urban areas

  in Middle Ages

  in Victorian era

  USA Today

  Vanatinai

  Van Derbur, Marilyn

  Van Engelen, Cornelius

  Veiller, Lawrence

  Venezuela

  Verney, Ralph and Mary

  Victoria, Queen

  Victorian marriages challenges to

  violence

  cohabitation and

  homicide

  in Middle Ages

  and origins of marriage

  rape

  rejection of legitimacy of

  and sentimentalization of marriage

  social purity movement and

  Victorians and

  virginity

  Waldreda

  Wales

  Walley, Thomas

  Wandesford, Alice

  war

  Watson, John

  Watts, Jeffrey

  wealth:

  marriage restrictions and

  see also economic aspects of marriage

  wedding celebrations

  wedding night

  Weekly Standard

  Weinsburg, Hermann von

  Weir, James

  Weiss, Jessica

  welfare

  Welhoeck, Agatha

  West, Mae

  Westminster Review

  Why Change Your Wife?

  widows

  Social Security and

  Wiessner, Polly

  Wilde, Oscar

  Willard, Frances

  Willekins, Harry

  Wilson, E. O.

  Winslow, Cora

  Winterhalder, Bruce

  Winthrop, John

  Wolfers, Justin

  Wollstonecraft, Mary

  women:

  anxiety about marriage prospects among

  beauty standards and

  college-educated

  diaries of

  education for

  employed, see working women

  exchange of

  fallen

  femes soles

  gender and, see gender inequalities; gender roles

  in Greece

  legal status of ; see also women’s rights and feminism

  and male oppressor theory of marriage

  and male provider theory of marriage

  mistrust between men and

  moral influence of

  purity of

  in Rome

  royal; see also aristocracy

  same-sex friendships of

  and sentimentalization of wives and mothers

  single

  Victorian

  widowed

  working, see working women

  Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (Ellis)

  women’s rights and feminism

  domestic feminism

  in nineteenth century

  in 1950s,

  in 1960s,

  postfeminism

  in 1790s,

  Victorians and

  voting and

  work

  balancing family and

  child labor

  Depression and

  dual-earner marriages

  earning capacity and

  home as refuge from

  income tax and

  male provider ideal and

  1970s recession and

  service

  Victorians and see also labor, division of; male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages

  working class, see lower class

  working women

  African American

  birth control and

  in Depression

  discrimination and

  divorce and

  Industrial Revolution and

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  between 1900 and 1920

  in 1950s

  in 1970s

  in 1990s

  opting-out and

  retirement of, after marriage or childbirth

  taxes and

  in World War II

  World Revolution and Family Patterns (Goode)

  World War II

  Wrigley, E. A.

  Yale Review

  youth culture

  Yoruba

  Young, Iris Marion

  Zachary, Pope

  Zambia

  Zimri-lim