Routledge Library Editions: Marriage

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This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1939 and 1991. It looks at marriage in a broad context from a variety of perspectives, including anthropological, health, historical, psychological, and sociological. Individual titles cover mediation, divorce and separation, marriage guidance, disability, sexual health, along with wider issues such as kinship, wardship, marriage in India and Africa and the subordination of women internationally. This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in the place of marriage in society.

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Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

1st Edition

By Christine Oppong
June 23, 2025

In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration, paid employment, and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies, in decision making in households, and in the sexual division of labour and power. This was particularly so in areas formerly subjected to colonial domination and ...

Of Marriage and the Market: Women's Subordination Internationally and its Lessons

1st Edition

Edited By Kate Young, Carol Wolkowitz, Roslyn McCullagh
June 23, 2025

Despite the vast difference between first and third world societies, the subordination of women to men seems to be a universal fact. Originally published in 1984, the chapters in this book look specifically at the marital bond/contract, and locate the subordination of women in terms of that ...

Sex Before Marriage

1st Edition

By Eleanor Hamilton
June 23, 2025

In this book, originally published in Britain in 1971, and reissued here with a new preface, Eleanor Hamilton provides an enlightened and practical guide to the problems of sex and love for the increasing number of young men and women who wanted to enjoy a full and rich relationship before marriage...

Sexual Adjustment in Marriage

1st Edition

By Henry Olsen
June 23, 2025

In the 1950s sexual instruction was still a considerable problem despite the very great freedom of discussion that was common. The high level of so-called sexual neurosis among women, the problems of sexual compatibility and birth control, and the spread of venereal disease all bore witness to the ...

The Married Homosexual Man: A Psychological Study

1st Edition

By Michael W. Ross
June 23, 2025

‘All that is left is to pretend. But to pretend to the end of one’s life is the highest torment.’ So wrote the composer Peter Tchaikovsky following his marriage to his student, Antonina Milyukov, 1877. How common is such a conclusion today amongst males with homosexual tendencies and who have ...

The Shaking of the Foundations: Family and Society

1st Edition

By Ronald Fletcher
June 23, 2025

Originally published in 1988, the author of the classic Family and Marriage in Britain (1962), Professor Ronald Fletcher here makes a new appraisal of the family in society today. Comprehensive in its range of material and straightforward in style, the book represents his thoughts on the family and...

Who Divorces?

1st Edition

By Barbara Thornes, Jean Collard
June 23, 2025

The divorce rate in England and Wales increased nearly four-fold between 1950 and 1976; in the five years following the implementation of the 1969 Divorce Reform Act in January 1971, it more than doubled. Despite the plethora of public comment about the rising divorce rates, there was at the time ...

Women and Marriage in India

1st Edition

By P. Thomas
June 23, 2025

Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses. In this book, originally published in 1939, the author traces and analyses the institutions of marriage and family in India. The women of India, after their ancient matriarchal supremacy, declined ...