What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History Of Our Most (QuakerBooks)

What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History Of Our Most

BY E J GRAFF

Brief Description:
"Why wed? As a financial investment? To have sex? To reproduce the species? To link two families together? This highly informative and enjoyable romp through the history of marriage in western Europe and the US looks at all these reasons and more. Graff..has organized her book into six thematic chapters, entitled Money, Sex, Babies, Kin, Order, and Heart.. She has produced a well-organized work of thoughtful popular history that displays considerable wit and verve, and that is in equal measure instructive and entertaining." -Kirkus Reviews

Beacon 2004 303 PP. Paper

$18.00 (low stock)

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