Authors: Marilyn Yalom
ISBN-13: 9780060931568, ISBN-10: 0060931566
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: Reprint
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife; A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, psychiatrist and writer Irvin Yalom.
A History of the Wife is a provocative and comprehensive study of how marriage has affected the lives of women from the earliest days of civilization to the 21st century. Using the modern marriage as a focal point, the distinguished cultural historian Marilyn Yalom charts the evolution of this institution in the Judeo-Christian world and discusses the role it will play in the future.
Drawing extensively from diaries, memoirs, letters, legal statutes, and religious practices dating back to Biblical times, this lucid, rich narrative highlights the turning points in the history of the wife: from Ancient Greece, where daughters were given by fathers to husbands as property arrangements to medieval Europe, where marriage was infused with religious meaning; from the ideals of companionate marriage of the Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment to the sexual revolution in America, when a new, international model of spousal relationships emerged.
About the Author:
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. In 1992 she was decorated by the French government as an Officer des Palmes Academiques, She lives with her husband, the author Irvin D. Yalom, in Palo Alto CA.
Packed with rich material...
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Is the Wife an Endangered Species? | ||
1 | Wives in the Ancient World: Biblical, Greek, and Roman Models | 1 |
2 | Wives in Medieval Europe, 1100-1500 | 45 |
3 | Protestant Wives in Germany, England, and America, 1500-1700 | 97 |
4 | Republican Wives in America and France | 146 |
5 | Victorian Wives on Both Sides of the Atlantic | 175 |
6 | Victorian Wives on the American Frontier | 226 |
7 | The Woman Question and the New Woman | 263 |
8 | Sex, Contraception, and Abortion in the United States, 1840-1940 | 294 |
9 | Wives, War, and Work, 1940-1950 | 317 |
10 | Toward the New Wife, 1950-2000 | 352 |
Notes | 401 | |
Credits and Permissions | 427 | |
Index | 431 |