Courtship and Marriage and the Changing American Family
Author: Lauren Kelly
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Published: 2019-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9781524982812
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Author: Lauren Kelly
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Published: 2019-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9781524982812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Everett Dixon Dyer
Publisher: Homewood, Ill. : Dorsey Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katie Barclay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1000734021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of marriage, seeking to uncover not only personal feeling but also the political and social implications of emotion. They highlight how marriage as an institution has been shaped not just by law and society but also by individual and community choices, desires and emotional values. Importantly, they also emphasize how the history of non-traditional and same-sex relationships and their emotions have long played an important role in determining the nature of marriage as an institution and emotional union. In doing so, this collection allows us to rethink both the past and present of marriage, destabilizing a story of a stable institution and opening it up as a site of contest, debate and feeling.
Author: Martin King Whyte
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780202304151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the American system of dating, mate choice, and marriage. It analyzes a wide range of established ideas about how dating and mate choice are changing, and identifies changes and continuities in premarital experiences in twentieth century America. A variety of ideas about what sorts of dating and premarital experiences will make for a successful marriage are tested and for the most part disproven, raising serious doubts about our fundamental assumption that dating experience helps individuals make a "wise" choice for a future mate. Marital success turns out to depend not so much on premarital experiences or on the social background characteristics of couples (such as race, religion, and social class) as on the way in which couples structure their day-to-day marital life together. Through its detailed examination of a wide range of ideas and predictions about dating, mating, and marriage, and through its dramatic findings, Dating, Mating, and Marriage challenges many previous assumptions and conclusions about the fate of American marriage and elevates our knowledge of the American system of mate choice to a higher level.
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 030742619X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with “the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life” (The New York Times) “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us, again and again.”—Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best—tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
Author: Beth L. Bailey
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1989-08-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1421412470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.
Author: Jessi Streib
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0199364435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon interviews with adults married to a partner of a different class background, The Power of the Past reveals the intimate connections between love and class and how enduring class attributes shape who they love and how their marriage unfolds.
Author: Marshall Segal
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2017-06-20
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1433555484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife Is Never Mainly About Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More. Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for more now. If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that's because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.
Author: Thomas Umstattd Jr
Publisher: Stone Castle Publishing
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781943745005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1990s, a huge movement swept through America. Millions of young people stopped dating and embraced something new called "courtship" which promised to usher singles into marriage while avoiding the dangers of dating. It sounded wonderful. The problem? It didn't work. The resulting singleness epidemic left a generation with broken hearts and little hope. In Courtship In Crisis, Thomas Umstattd Jr. explains where the courtship crisis came from, and why it failed. More importantly, he lays out an alternative model that works.
Author: Toni Henderson-Mayers
Publisher:
Published: 2013-09-11
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780975516300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A highly insightful must-read, Wise Courtship shares a myriad of eye-opening insights based on author Toni Henderson-Mayers's over twenty-five years of experience in the area of building business and personal relationships. In this work, you will explore the trade secrets of courting. Challenging singles to choose wisely, this selection illustrates what to look for in a potential spouse, utilizing her three step system sure to unveil the true character of any love interest. Informative and spiritually enriching, this engaging book is a boon to all those who find themselves lost in the often confusing and intricate world of romantic relationships." You will discover: Three step dating/courting system to reveal true character of love interest. Discover how much you really know about your partner. Evaluate "real life" examples of couples who ignored huge red flags. Recognize warnings to avoid serious trouble. View photos and Foreword by Cora Jakes-Coleman, daughter of Bishop T.D. Jakes, Potter's House, Dallas, TX