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Liu Jieyu
Liu Xijun
Livia
living arrangements:
living alone
living together,
see
cohabitation
married couples living apart
Locke, Harvey
Locke, John
Lombard, Peter
Lothar II,
Louis II,
Louis VII,
love
biological basis for
as by-product of marriage
definitions of
and doctrine of men’s and women’s different natures
Greek view of
as incompatible with marriage
romantic, exaltation of
love-based marriage
antimother psychology and
companionship and intimacy in
critics of
and differences between the sexes
expectations about
financial security and
gender hierarchy in
male breadwinner/female homemaker,
see
male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages
in nineteenth century
revolutionary implications of
sentimentalization of
sexualization of
and social support for women
Victorian
worldwide evolution toward
Loving, Richard and Mildred
lower class (working class)
childbirth and
divorce and
living conditions of
male breadwinner/female homemaker
model and
LoWiili
Ludehale, Elizabeth de
Lundberg, Ferdinand
Luo
Luther, Martin
Lyman, Abigail
Lynd, Helen and Robert
Lynn, Loretta
Lyon, Phyllis
McCall’s
McCosker, Edward
Macedonia
McNeil, Nena and George
McSheffrey, Shannon
Magazine of Domestic Economy
Magistro, Cynthia
mail-order brides
male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages
conformity and
decline of
Depression and
golden age of
high-income
low-income
revival of
short-term
taxes and
welfare programs and
see also
love-based marriage; nuclear family
Maori
Marcia
Margueritte, Victor
Mari
market economy
Marktfrau
marriage:
acceptance in
age at,
see
age of marriage
in ancient societies
anxiety about prospects for
arranged
author’s attitudes toward
benefits of
biological basis for
childless
choice of spouse in ;
see also
love-based marriage; political marriages
codes of conduct in
contracts for
cospousal arrangements in
counseling and advice on
definitions of
in Depression
disestablishment of
divorce and,
see
divorce
dual-earner
as economic institution,
see
economic aspects of marriage
in eighteenth century
fears of crises in
between fourteenth and seventeeth centuries
golden age of
healthy, creation of
as human right
individual life courses and
interracial
invention of
legal status of
mail-order brides and
male breadwinner/female homemaker,
see
male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages
male oppressor theory of
male provider theory of
meanings and purposes of
in Middle Ages,
see
Middle Ages, marriages in
in 1920s,
in 1930s,
in 1940s,
in 1950s,
in 1960s,
in 1970s,
in 1980s,
in 1990s,
in nineteenth century
origins of
partnership in
as political institution,
see
political marriages
political model of
preparation and classes for
as private contract
promotion of
rates of
remarriage,
see
remarriage
rules surrounding
same-sex
sex and,
see
sex
state or church sanction of
support systems for
“traditional,”
see also
male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages
transformation of, at end of twentieth century
in twentieth century
unhappy, medical symptoms linked to
vows of
women’s dissatisfaction with
in World War II
Marriage Crisis, The
(Groves)
Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties
(Stopes)
Marshall, Lorna
Martin, Del
Martineau, Harriet
Maslow, Abraham
Massachusetts Magazine
masturbation
Mattingly, Marybeth
Maurer, Louise and Louis
May, Elaine Tyler
Mayan empire
Mbuti Pygmies
Mead, Margaret
medical problems, unhappiness and
medicine
Mediterranean
Meigs, Charles
Melville, Herman
men:
bachelors
categories of
gender roles and,
see
gender inequalities; gender roles
and male oppressor theory of marriage
and male provider theory of marriage
mistrust between women and
morality of
same-sex friendships of
Victorian conventions and
Mencken, H. L.
merchant class
Mesopotamia
Mexico
Middle Ages, marriages in
advice books and
of aristocracy
Canterbury Tales
and
of common folk
memoirs and
service employment and
in urban areas
middle class
moral concerns of
in 1950s
restriction of childbearing in
sexual revolution and
Victorian
welfare programs and
Middle East
military
alliances and peace treaties ;
see also
political marriages
mills
Mills, John Stuart
Milton, John
Minangkabau
mistresses
Moby-Dick
(Melville)
Modell, John
Modern Woman, The: The Lost Sex
(Farnham and Lundberg)
monasteries
monogamy
Montaigne, Michel de
Moquiuixtli
morality
“fun,”
of men
of women
Moral Majority
More, Hannah
Mormons
Moses
Moskowitz, Eva
movies
moving, at time of marriage
murder
Murdock, George Peter
Murngin
Murray, Judith Sargent
Muslims
Must You Conform?
(Lindner)
mut‘a
Na
Napoleon
Napoleonic Code
Nastok, Edmund de
Native Americans
Blackfoot, marriage fable of
exchange of men among
Plains
sharing among
Nefertiti
Nelson, Margaret
Nepal
Nepos, Cornelius
Nero, Claudius
New Guinea
Newsome, Gavin
Newsweek
New York Female Moral Reform Society
New York Times Magazine
New Zealand
Nigeria
Nisbet, Robert
Nitocris
Nixon, Richard
nobility,
see
aristocracy
novels
nuclear family
Athenian democracy and
hunter-gatherer societies and
independence of
living arrangements and
narrowing of activities and affections to
privacy of
and sentimentalization of marriage
worldwide evolution toward
see also
family; male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages
nutrition
Oaks, Gladys
Octavia
Octavian (Augustus)
O’Day, Rosemary
Open Marriage
(McNeil and McNeil)
Orenstein, Peggy
Oresteia, The
(Aeschylus)
Otto IV
Owram, Doug
Ozzie and Harriet
Palestine
Pallier, Elizabeth
Palmer, Alice
papacy,
see
popes
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Parr, Catherine
Parsons, Talcott
Paston, Elizabeth
patriarchal power
egalitarianism and
revolutions and
Paul, Saint
Peabody, Sophia
peasants and farmers
adulthood and
marital division of labor among
middle-class family values and
serfdom and
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel
Perch, Comtesse du
Pericles
Peters, Joan
Peterson, Ruth
Peter the Great
Philip of Flanders, Count
Phillips, Roderick
plague
Plato
Playboy
plowing
Plutarch
Pockels. F.
political marriages
in ancient world
Antony and Cleopatra and
in Byzantine Empire
Christian Church and
in medieval Europe
military alliances and
Octavian and
parental arrangement of, in Middle Ages
see also
aristocracy
politics:
family model based on
home as refuge from
women’s place in
polygamy
cospousal arrangements
medieval kings and
prohibition of
Popenoe, Paul
popes
Boniface IV
Charlemagne and
Gregory II
Gregory VII
Gregory the Great
Henry VIII and
Lothar and
Protestant Reformation and
Stephen
Zachary
pornography
postfeminism
poverty
see also
lower class
pregnancy,
see
childbirth
prehistoric times
primates
primogeniture
privacy
property
husband’s control of
inheritance of,
see
inheritance of property
marriage contracts and
wife’s rights to
see also
economic aspects of marriage
prostitution
Protestant Reformation
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
Proverbs, Book of
Prussia
Ptolemy II
Ptolemy III
Ptolemy XIII
Ptolemy XIV
Pulcheria
purity, female
in ancient world
men’s emulation of
Qatna
Queen for a Day
queens:
and inheritance of nobility
see also
aristocracy
Quintilian
Raoul I of Coucy
rape
Redbook
Reed, Donna
reform movements
Reiss, Ira
religion
Christian,
see
Christian Church
Judaism
revival movements
remarriage
Christian Church and
Eskimo and
Renfrew, Colin
Richardson, Samuel
rights
civil rights movement
of women,
see
women’s rights
Robinson, William
Roddenberry, Seaborn
Rodman, Henrietta
Roe v. Wade
Rogers, Anna
Rogers, Stacy
Roman Catholic Church,
see
Christian Church
Rome, ancient
Antony and Cleopatra and
aristocracy in
divorce in
fall of
freewoman/slave marriages in
marriage in
Pulcheria in
women in
Rosenteur, Phyllis
“Rosie the Riveter,”
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Rout, Ettie
Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain
royalty,
see
aristocracy
Ruggles, Steven
Rukuba
Russia
Ryman, Frederick
same-sex marriages
Sanger, Margaret
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Review
Saudi Arabia
Scandinavia
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schmalhausen, Samuel
Schwartz, Pepper
sea horses
Seccombe, Wally
Second Sex, The
(de Beauvoir)
secret marriages
Sedgwick, Catharine
Seefeldt, Kristin
Segalen, Martine

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