The History and Philosophy of Marriage, Or Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Classic Reprint)

The History and Philosophy of Marriage, Or Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Classic Reprint)
Author: E. N. Jencks
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781333236304

Excerpt from The History and Philosophy of Marriage, or Polygamy and Monogamy Compared Monogamy and Christianity in the Third and Fourth Centuries Constantine and Theodosius Asceticism and Monasticism Mediaeval Superstition and Immorality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The History of Human Marriage, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

The History of Human Marriage, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edward Westermarck
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2017-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780265288764

Excerpt from The History of Human Marriage, Vol. 3 of 3 Group-marriage among peoples practising polyandry as a combination of polygyny with polyandry, pp. 223 - 226. - Group-marriage or more or less similar relations among the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles, pp. 226 - 228. - Group-relations among the Chukchee, pp. 228 - 2 32. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Plural Marriage for Our Times

Plural Marriage for Our Times
Author: Philip L. Kilbride
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0313384797

This thoroughly revised second edition offers a child-centered, international perspective as it urges America to de-stigmatize alternate family forms. In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explained how plural marriage is surfacing in western countries to address economic and spiritual crises. In Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option? Second Edition, Kilbride and his coauthor, Douglas R. Page, update and enhance this thesis in light of contemporary circumstances, new studies, and current legal debates. This new edition examines plural marriage's benefits for children. It extends the discussion of polygamy and religion, especially the Muslim perspective on marriage and family; considers the illegal polygamy of immigrants; and looks at multiple marriage in African American communities, where "crisis polygamy" is a growing phenomenon. The authors suggest Americans consider plural marriage as a viable practice that can help reduce the divorce rate, better protect women and children, and serve as an alternative to the "fractured family" so prevalent in America today.

Public Vows

Public Vows
Author: Nancy F. Cott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2002-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674253485

We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. From the founding of the United States to the present day, imperatives about the necessity of marriage and its proper form have been deeply embedded in national policy, law, and political rhetoric. Legislators and judges have envisioned and enforced their preferred model of consensual, lifelong monogamy--a model derived from Christian tenets and the English common law that posits the husband as provider and the wife as dependent.In early confrontations with Native Americans, emancipated slaves, Mormon polygamists, and immigrant spouses, through the invention of the New Deal, federal income tax, and welfare programs, the federal government consistently influenced the shape of marriages. And even the immense social and legal changes of the last third of the twentieth century have not unraveled official reliance on marriage as a "pillar of the state." By excluding some kinds of marriages and encouraging others, marital policies have helped to sculpt the nation's citizenry, as well as its moral and social standards, and have directly affected national understandings of gender roles and racial difference. Public Vows is a panoramic view of marriage's political history, revealing the national government's profound role in our most private of choices. No one who reads this book will think of marriage in the same way again.

The Philosophy of Marriage (Classic Reprint)

The Philosophy of Marriage (Classic Reprint)
Author: Louis J. Jordan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780265518618

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Marriage The very rapid sale of the Fiftieth Edition of this little work, and the demands upon our time by the growing increase of our professional practice, preclude us from making any very im portant additions to the present issue. There is however, one point to which, in justice to our selves we must advert. Many patients who have consulted us stated that they would have done so long before, but that having in their anxiety, procured all works within their reach, relating, or supposed to relate, to the evils under which they were sufl'ering, they found such marvel lous cures related in some of them, and such an amount of self-laudation, that, in ignorance of the falsity Of the one or-the groundlessness of the other, they were led, to their own great loss Of both health and money, to consult the authors of those too promising brochures, only to be disappointed and they thereforerecommended us, for the benefit of others who might probably pursue the same course, to say more as to our own success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Marriage and Morals (Classic Reprint)

Marriage and Morals (Classic Reprint)
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780260843081

Excerpt from Marriage and Morals The sexual morals of the community will be found to consist of several layers. There are first the positive institutions embodied in law; such, for example, as monogamy in some coun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations

The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations
Author: Michael Ryan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780282571405

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations: With the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms The very favourable reception of thr_e_e editions of this work, in a short time, has - induced its author to revise, enlarge, and, he hopes, improve the present impression. The subject considered, is one of universal interest, and was investigated from the most remote period of antiquity to the present time 5 but most particularly from the origin of medicine, as an art or science.\ Considered in all its rela tions, religious, moral, social legal, physical, philosophical, and medical, it will be found of the greatest importance to mankind. This will be manifest to all on the perusal of the introductory remarks, and the succeeding pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Geography of Marriage

The Geography of Marriage
Author: William Lamartine Snyder
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781330945483

Excerpt from The Geography of Marriage: Or Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the United States As well curse the sunlight, and rail at the moon. The views of these extremists are supplemented by writers like Mr. Richard, who seeks in this age, near the dawn of the twentieth century, to bolster up the curse of polygamy, by arguments to prove that it is the form of marriage not only authorized but distinctly sanctioned by the Almighty and the Marquis of Queensberry, who seriously objects to monogamy as a grievous error, and altogether a barbarous institution born of hypocrisy and bigotry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.