Last comes love.(Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage)(Book Review)

The Progressive | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage By Stephanie Coontz Viking. 423 pages. $25.95.

Since antiquity, conservative social critics have fretted over the crisis in marriage. Even the Roman emperor Augustus promoted a family values campaign, according to Stephanie Coontz in her new book, Marriage, A History. Augustus created a "wave of manufactured nostalgia for the supposed virtues of earlier times, when women were not allowed to drink wine and, according to the satirist Juvenal, wives were too tired from working at their looms ...

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