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020 $a9781582341194 (hardcover)
020 $a1582341192 (hardcover)
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100 1 $aSquire, Susan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83008567
245 10 $aI don't :$ba contrarian history of marriage /$cSusan Squire.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury :$bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan,$c2008.
300 $axi, 258 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tParadise Lost, Just Because He Listened to His Wife --$g2.$tStruck Dead, Just Because He Spilled the Fruit of His Loins --$g3.$tDo Athenian Husbands Have It All? --$g4.$tDo Roman Wives Have It All? --$g5.$tThe Cure for Lust --$g6.$tOriginal Spin --$g7.$tNever on Sunday. (Or Wednesday. Or Friday. Or Saturday.) --$g8.$tThe Making of a Sexless Marriage --$g9.$tCuckold's Lament --$g10.$tThe Golden Age of Adultery --$g11.$tThe End of the World? --$g12.$tWhat a Man Wants --$g13.$tSeason of the Witch --$g14.$tBe Fertile and Increase - The Sequel --$g15.$tLove Meets Marriage: A New Idea.
520 1 $a"For thousands of years, marriage has been at the very foundation of civilization in the West. It has been cast as a reproductive factory, a control center for women's sexuality, a holding pen for lust, a cure for loneliness, and recently a happily-ever-after love nest. All the while it has been mocked, maligned, and moaned about more often (or at least more loudly) than it has been praised. Yet the institution endures. Why?" "It's a story of wishful (not to mention lustful) thinking: of biblical beauties too seductive not to be punished; Athenian statues mysteriously stripped of their giant phalluses; the medieval Church rules that forbade conjugal sex on more than half the days of the year; a Frenchman's (and an Italian's, and an Englishman's) tips on training the perfect wife; the risque aristocratic game of adultery that begat romance as we know it; and the renegade monk who forged the previously unthinkable bond of marriage and love." "Learned, acerbic, opinionated, and funny, Squire draws on everything from ancient Greek prostitution law to Inquisition witch-hunting manuals to Shakespeare and Freud (sometimes all at the same time) to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic picture of how marriage has changed over time. This is a book to provoke and fascinate readers of all stripes: men and women, feminists and misogynists, atheists and believers, spouses and divorcees - and anyone who is even thinking about getting married."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMarriage.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081416
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008017521-b.html
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