Marriage, a History
内容简介
Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely entertaining book, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian couples to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is-and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was only 200 years ago that marriage began to be about love and emotional commitment, and since then the very things that have strengthened marriage as a personal relationship have steadily weakened it as a social institution. Marriage, A History brings intelligence, wit, and some badly needed perspective to today's marital debates and dilemmas.
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作者简介
斯蒂芬妮·孔茨（Stephanie Coontz），
1944年出生，美国当代家庭委员会的研究与公共教育主管，长青州立大学教授，主要从事历史和家庭问题的研究，著有《我们从未如此：美国家庭与怀旧陷阱》（The Way We Never Were：American Families and the Nostalgia Trap），《我们一直如此：跟美国变化中的家庭妥协》（The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families）等书。除了学术研究，孔茨在公共事务的讨论中也颇具影响力，其评论文章经常见诸《婚姻与家庭杂志》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》等媒体。
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读书文摘
在这一西方模式中，人们期望婚姻能够满足他们比从前更多的心理需要和社会需要。婚姻应该免于过去人们所承受过的强迫、暴力及性别不平等。个人希望婚姻能满足他们对亲密关系和友爱情谊的大多数需求，以及他们对性的所有需求。 人类历史上，此前从未有个哪个社会认为这样一套对婚姻的过高期望是现实的，也不认为这些是值得去追求的。
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