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Marriage: a history
Has anyone else read this book by Stephanie Coontz? I just finished it (fully 4/10th of the book are endnotes supporting her research) and was actually pretty impressed with her history of how the concept of marriage changed from a purely economic one that affected whole villages (or at least kin lines) to our current individualized love-based institution.
The one-star comments at Amazon are pretty interesting - a lot of rants against feminism, although this book is by no means a feminist manifesto. As I said, just about everything is extensively footnoted to support her facts and conclusions.
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