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  Dee, Sandra

  Dell, Floyd

  Delphy, Christine

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  Denmark

  Depression

  Deroin, Jeanne

  Deutsch, Francine

  Diana, Princess

  Dickinson, Robert

  division of labor, see labor, division of

  divorce

  in Africa

  children and

  Christian Church and

  cohabitation and

  Depression and

  education and

  Eskimo and

  female inheritance rights and

  in France

  gender roles and

  in Greece

  independence effect and

  Indians and

  laws on

  Lothar and

  no-fault

  rates of

  in Rome

  sexual happiness and

  women’s dissatisfaction and

  women’s work and

  Dix, Dorothy

  Dobe

  Dobson, James

  Dogon

  Doll’s House, A (Ibsen)

  domesticity, see homemaking, housework

  domestic partnership laws

  dowries

  of Eleanor of Aquitaine

  in Greece

  Henry VII and

  and marriage as career move

  in Middle Ages

  in Rome

  women’s earning of

  drugs

  early humans

  economic aspects of marriage

  age at marriage and

  in ancient world

  bridewealth

  in Byzantine Empire

  cooperation and

  dowries, see dowries

  early humans and

  and household as economic unit

  kin groups and

  legitimacy and

  love-based marriage and

  male breadwinner/female homemaker model and

  for medieval merchants

  for peasants

  see also political marriages; property

  economy

  consumer

  market

  1970s recession and

  Edgar, King

  Edin, Kathy

  education

  college-educated women

  divorce and

  GI Bill and

  likelihood of marriage and

  Edward, King

  Edward I

  Edward the Elder

  egalitarianism

  Egypt

  Antony and Cleopatra and

  Ehmer, Josef

  Ehrenreich, Barbara

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Eleanor of Castile

  Elizabeth I

  Ellis, Havelock

  Ellis, Sarah Stickney

  Elmy, Elizabeth

  employment, see work

  endogamy

  England

  birthrates in

  divorce in

  Industrial Revolution in

  love-based marriage as viewed in

  Protestantism in service employment in

  Enlightenment

  equality see also women’s rights

  Eskimo

  estrus cycle

  Etzioni, Amitai

  eugenics

  eunuchs

  Europe

  birthrates in

  divorce in

  early modern, marriage in

  golden age of marriage in

  legitimacy principle in

  medieval marriages in, see Middle Ages, marriages in

  service employment in

  exogamy

  Eyb, Albrecht von

  Falwell, Jerry

  family(ies)

  aristocratic, see aristocracy

  Augustus’ support for

  balancing work and

  choice of spouse and

  Christianity and

  extended through marriage

  in Greece

  “house” and

  in-laws

  laws regarding

  long-term study of

  loyalty to

  man as head of

  monarchal model of

  nuclear, see nuclear family

  political marriages and, see political marriages

  prehistoric

  residence and work roles determined by

  Roman

  sentimentalization of

  siblings

  stepfamilies

  wealthy, marriage restrictions and

  farmers, see peasants and farmers

  Farnham, Marynia

  femes soles

  Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)

  feminism, see women’s rights and feminism

  Fichte, J. G.

  Fields, Annie

  films

  Fitzgerald, Zelda

  Flaming Youth

  Fletcher, Elizabeth

  Fortes, Meyer

  Fouler, Ralph

  Fourth Lateran Council Fox, Robin

  France

  birthrates in

  divorce in

  La Garçonne in

  legitimacy principle in

  love-based marriage as viewed in

  partnership laws in

  Revolution in

  unmarried women in

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Frayser, Suzanne

  Freke, Elizabeth

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedan, Betty

  Friedl, Ernestine

  Fulbe

  Fuller, Margaret

  Fulton, Eliza Lynn

  “fun morality,”

  Furstenberg, Frank

  gays and lesbians, see homosexuality, homosexuals

  geese

  gender inequalities

  in China

  husbands’ authority and

  infanticide and

  property and

  sexuality and

  Victorians and

  violence and, see violence

  gender roles

  after childbirth

  divorce and

  and doctrine of men’s and women’s different natures and spheres of activity

  in male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages, see male breadwinner/ female homemaker marriages

  in 1950s

  in 1990s,

  socializing and

  twentieth-century revolution in

  see also labor, division of

  General Electric

  Germanic societies

  Germany

  birthrates in

  divorce rates in

  eugenics in

  premarital sex in

  unmarried women in

  Gerson, Kathleen

  Ghana

  ghost marriages

  GI Bill

  Giddens, Anthony

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  Glamour

  Glendon, Mary Ann

  God

  Christian ideas about

  marriage and

  Goode, William F.

  Good Housekeeping

  Gottlieb, Beatrice

  Gottman, John

  Gouges, Olympe de

  Gourge, William

  government

  Athenian

  and rejection of absolutism

  Roman

  women’s place in

  Graham, Sylvester

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Great Depression

  Greece

  Greece, ancient

  aristocracy in

  Athenian law in

  Hellenistic Era and

  love as viewed in

  marriage in

  plays in

  women in

  Greenwell, Dora

  Greg, W. R.

  Gregory VII, Pope

  Gregory the Great, Pope

  Grene, Robert

  Griffin, Walter T.

  Griselda
, story of

  Grossberg, Michael

  Groves, Ernest

  Growing Gulf Between Women and Men, The (Hacker)

  Gruenberg, Sidonie

  Grund, Francis J.

  guilds

  Gururumba

  Hacker, Andrew

  Hale, Matthew

  Hall, Emily

  happiness, pursuit of

  Harrington, Henry

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody

  Hayden, Brian

  Hebrews

  Hefner, Hugh

  Héloïse

  Henri II,

  Henry I,

  Henry VII,

  Henry VIII,

  Herland (Gilman)

  Hernandez, Donald

  Hesiod

  Hewlett, Sylvia Ann

  Hincmar, Archbishop

  Hindus

  holidays

  Holland

  home:

  meaning of word

  as sanctuary

  and sentimentalization of marriage

  “Home” (Greenwell)

  homemaking, housework

  consumer economy and

  Depression and

  division of

  expertise in

  work opportunities and

  see also male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages

  Homer

  homicide

  homosexuality, homosexuals

  adoption and

  child rearing and

  gender roles and

  in Greece

  marriage and

  in 1960s and 1970s

  in Rome

  same-sex friendships and

  sodomy laws and

  honeymoons

  Hortensius

  Houlbronne, Pierre

  house, meaning of word

  House Beautiful

  housekeeping, see homemaking, housework

  housing inflation

  Hugh the Great

  hunting and gathering societies

  Ibsen, Henrik

  Iliad (Homer)

  impotence

  Incas

  incest

  Church rulings on

  independence effect

  India

  cospousal arrangements in

  love as viewed in

  marriage as viewed in

  widows in

  Indians, American, see Native Americans

  individualism

  Indonesia

  industrialization

  infanticide

  inheritance of property

  Athenian law and

  by children of mistresses

  consent doctrine and

  French reform of laws on

  illegitimacy and

  jointure and

  landholding

  medieval women and

  and parental approval of marriage

  plague and

  primogeniture and

  in Rome

  by wives and daughters

  in-laws

  Institute for Human Development

  Ireland

  Ireland, Dorothy

  Islamic world

  Italy

  Jackson, Edward

  Janin, Albert

  Japan

  birthrate in

  Fujiwara clan in

  gender inequality in

  illegitimacy in

  Jesus

  Jews, Judaism

  jobs, see work

  jointure

  Judd, Sylvester

  Julia

  justice

  Justinian

  Juvenal

  Kachin

  Kalahari Desert

  Kaler, Amy

  Kandyan

  Kashmir

  Keats, John

  Kelley, Catherine

  Kempe, Margery

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kenya

  Key, Ellen

  Kiernan, Kathleen

  kings, see aristocracy

  Knutson, Coya

  Knyff, Maude

  Koken, Empress

  Komarovsky, Mirra

  Kristol, William

  Kuijsten, Anton

  !Kung Bushmen

  Kurtz, Stanley

  Kwakiutl

  labor, see work

  labor, division of

  in child rearing

  cohabitation and

  among farmers and peasants

  in hunter-gatherer societies

  and male provider theory of marriage

  see also male breadwinner/female homemaker marriages

  Ladies’ Companion

  Ladies’ Home Journal

  Lady Magazine

  Landes, Paul

  landholding

  Laodice

  LaRossa, Ralph

  Latin America

  Leach, Edmund

  Leave It to Beaver

  leirwite

  Leonard, Diana

  Lepowsky, Maria

  lesbians and gays, see homosexuality, homosexuals

  Lesthaeghe, Ron

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude

  Levy v. Louisiana

  Lewis, Sarah

  Life

  life expectancy

  Lindner, Robert

  Lippmann, Walter

  literacy

  Literary Digest

  literature

  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

 

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