Physical Description:print xii, 460 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Husbands and wives: who were they? -- Learning marriage, rites of passage -- Weddings and the married state -- Love and sex in marriage -- Marriage from within four walls -- Go forth and multiply: children at the heart of marriage -- When things go wrong -- Unmarried and often single -- A gay focus on the nature of marriage -- Children and parenting in modern marriage -- For richer and poorer: marriage and money -- Marriage and race -- Marriage policies -- Issues at the heart of the marriage debate.