A History of the WifeHarper Collins, 13. 5. 2009 - 468 strán (strany) How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now? Combining "a scholar's rigor and a storyteller's craft"(San Jose Mercury News), distinguished cultural historian Marilyn Yalom charts the evolution of marriage in the Judeo Christian world through the centuries and shows how radically our ideas about marriage have changed. For any woman who is, has been, or ever will be married, this intellectually vigorous and gripping historical analysis of marriage sheds new light on an institution most people take for granted, and that may, in fact, be experiencing its most convulsive upheaval since the Reformation. |
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... roles that many women now find abhorrent ; yet certain aspects of those anti- quated obligations still linger on in the collective unconscious . Many men still expect their wives to provide some or all of these services , and many wives ...
... role in a divorce . If a wife wants a divorce , the husband must consent to it and give her a document called a get . If he refuses— because he thinks she will eventually come back to him or because he hopes to exchange the get for ...
... roles . In time , Jews and Christians alike looked to the older Hebrew examples for positive ( and negative ) conjugal models . Among the positive examples of what one might hope for in a wife , Sarah , the wife of Abraham , comes first ...
... fierce rivalries between wives living in a society that valued married women primarily as the mothers of sons . And like the story of Sarah , Abraham , and Hagar , it illuminates the role of Wives in the Ancient World.
Marilyn Yalom. Abraham , and Hagar , it illuminates the role of female " outsiders " within Hebrew households - Egyptian slave girls , for example , whose bodies facilitated the very existence of Hebrew families . The Hebrew Bible has a ...
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THREE | 97 |
FOUR | 146 |
FIVE | 226 |
SEVEN | 237 |
The Woman Question and the New Woman | 263 |
EIGHT | 294 |
NINE | 317 |
Victorian Wives on Both Sides of the Atlantic | 401 |
CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS | 427 |