Mate Choice and Domestic Life In the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Manual  

Oleh:

Gordon, Michael ; Bernstein, M. Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 32 no. 04 (Nov. 1970), page 665.

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Sixty-three nineteenth-century marriage manuals were studied as a means of indirectly collecting historical data on courtship and domestic life. A considerable amount of diversity Was discovered in the views expressed in these books. Religious, physical, and social considerations were the factors most heavily stressed with regard to mate choice; romantic love was not an important factor. The wife's role can be characterized as involving an "obedience-submissive-reverence" complex, and the husband's complements this, i.e., he is a benign despot. Marital adjustment is not seen as a problematic issue. Sex is discussed almost solely in terms of its procreative function, although some change is indicated in this area as the century draws to a close.

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