[by] Bernard I. Murstein. Foreword by William M. Kephart.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York,
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Pub. Co.
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[1974]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 639 pages
Other Physical Details
illustrations
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-611).
CONTENTS NOTE
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The evolution and classification of marriage / Hebrew marriage in the Old Testament / Marriage among the Greeks / Roman marriage / Early Christian views on marriage and sex / The middle ages: The church and marriage / Marriage among the medieval laity / Courtly love an dits evolvements / The Renaissance and the Reformation: 1500-1615 / The age of reason and licentiousness: 1615-1789 / Romantics and Victorians: 1789-1918 / Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud: Philosophers of Sex / American marriage: From the colonies to the Civil War / Nineteenth-century experiments in marriage in the United States / The dawn of women's liberation and American marriage: 1865-1918 / Marriage and love in contemporary America / The sex explosion in America / Marriage in the Soviet Union / Marriage in China: Past and present / Japan: Confucius and computers / Marriage in Black Africa / The future of marriage: Some literary and theoretical approaches / Current marital innovations / Love, sex, and marriage: An overview and some predictions.