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Arrange Marriages
Title: Arrange Marriages
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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Arrange Marriages
The Making of Modern American Marriage"
The purpose of this talk is to outline a way of thinking about the history of the institution of marriage in the United States.
When I describe marriage as an institution, there are two things I mean to imply.
First, marriage is a social structure. Two individuals do not simply come together and create a marriage anew. Instead, when couples get married they enter into a relationship that is societally recognized and to some degree societally regulated. Laws and …showed first 85 words of 7725 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 7725 total…Georgia Press, 1985), pp. 35-50.
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Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll, Disorderly Conduct (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 (New York: Vintage Books, 1980, 1991).
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