A History Of Courtship

Author : Tania O'Donnell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510708709

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A History of Courtship by Tania O'Donnell Pdf

Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain. The book takes a historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of classic romantic mistakes and plenty of unusual tales. In the 14th century young men tried to impress the ladies with their footwear, donning shoes with pointed toes so long that they had to be secured with whalebone—presumably because size mattered! A History of Courtship is an entertaining and enlightening look at seduction over the centuries.

Author : Ellen K. Rothman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39076001698658

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Hands and Hearts by Ellen K. Rothman Pdf

Drawing from diaries, autobiographies, and personal correspondence, the auther reveals the complex reality and history behind stereotypes of courtship, adolescence, sexuality, and marriage in America from 1770 to 1920.

Author : Moira Weigel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374713133

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Labor of Love by Moira Weigel Pdf

“Does anyone date anymore?” Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: That’s not the way to find true love. The first women who made dates with strangers were often arrested for prostitution; long before “hookup culture,” there were “petting parties”; before parents worried about cell phone apps, they fretted about joyrides and “parking.” Dating is always dying. But this does not mean that love is dead. It simply changes with the economy. Dating is, and always has been, tied to work. Lines like “I’ll pick you up at six” made sense at a time when people had jobs that started and ended at fixed hours. But in an age of contract work and flextime, many of us have become sexual freelancers, more likely to text a partner “u still up?” Weaving together over one hundred years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do. This isn't a guide to “getting the guy.” There are no ridiculous “rules” to follow. Instead, Weigel helps us understand how looking for love shapes who we are—and hopefully leads us closer to the happy ending that dating promises.

Author : Katie Barclay,Jeffrey Meek,Andrea Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000734027

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Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown by Katie Barclay,Jeffrey Meek,Andrea Thomson Pdf

This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of marriage, seeking to uncover not only personal feeling but also the political and social implications of emotion. They highlight how marriage as an institution has been shaped not just by law and society but also by individual and community choices, desires and emotional values. Importantly, they also emphasize how the history of non-traditional and same-sex relationships and their emotions have long played an important role in determining the nature of marriage as an institution and emotional union. In doing so, this collection allows us to rethink both the past and present of marriage, destabilizing a story of a stable institution and opening it up as a site of contest, debate and feeling.

Author : Beth L. Bailey
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421412474

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From Front Porch to Back Seat by Beth L. Bailey Pdf

From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.

Author : Diana O'Hara
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0719062519

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Courtship and Constraint by Diana O'Hara Pdf

This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of private and public negotiation, often fraught with anxiety. If completed successfully it brought respectability, the privileges of marriage and adulthood, and a stable union between socially, economically, and emotionally compatible couples. Using Kent church court and probate material dating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century, the book blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the making of marriage.

Author : Ernest Sackville Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Courtship
ISBN : 0860258335

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A History of Courting by Ernest Sackville Turner Pdf

Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101118252

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Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz Pdf

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216066965

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Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England by Jennifer Phegley Pdf

This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary culture, the near obsessive pursuit of love and monogamous bliss is considered "normal," as evidenced by a wide range of online dating sites, television shows such as Sex in the City and The Bachelorette, and an endless stream of Hollywood romantic comedies. Ironically, when it comes to love and marriage, we still wrestle with many of the same emotional and social challenges as our 19th-century predecessors did over 100 years ago. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England draws on little-known conduct books, letter-writing manuals, domestic guidebooks, periodical articles, letters, and novels to reveal what the period equivalents of "dating" and "tying the knot" were like in the Victorian era. By addressing topics such as the etiquette of introductions and home visits, the roles of parents and chaperones, the events of the London season, model love letters, and the specific challenges facing domestic servants seeking spouses, author Jennifer Phegley provides a fascinating examination of British courtship and marriage rituals among the working, middle, and upper classes from the 1830s to the 1910s.

Author : Susan Squire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781582341194

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I Don't by Susan Squire Pdf

In this provocative and ambitious book, Squire unravels the turbulent history and many implications of the institution of marriage. The author delves into the many ways men and women have come together and what the state of their unions has meant for history, society, and politics.

Author : E S (Ernest Sackville) 1909- Turner
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015311512

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A History of Courting by E S (Ernest Sackville) 1909- Turner Pdf

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Author : Elizabeth Alice Clement
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807877074

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Love for Sale by Elizabeth Alice Clement Pdf

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called "treating," Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices. Women "treated" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. These "charity girls" created for themselves a moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both sexual barter and respectability. Although treating, as a clearly articulated language and identity, began to disappear after the 1920s and 1930s, Clement argues that it still had significant, lasting effects on modern sexual norms. She demonstrates how treating shaped courtship and dating practices, the prevalence and meaning of premarital sex, and America's developing commercial sex industry. Even further, her study illuminates the ways in which sexuality and morality interact and contribute to our understanding of the broader social categories of race, gender, and class.

Author : Rodney M. Cate,Sally A. Lloyd
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0803937091

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Courtship by Rodney M. Cate,Sally A. Lloyd Pdf

This fascinating volume focuses on courtship, paying particular attention to the differences between relationship and courtship development and deterioration. The authors describe factors that affect the later course of marriage, trace historical roots of courtship, discuss models of courtship that have guided research in this area and examine circumstantial factors that discriminate between stable and unstable premarital relationships. They also explore the `dark side' of courtship - violence between dating partners - and reveal the processes involved in the dissolution phase of premarital relationships. The volume concludes with a look at the future of courtship as an institution and suggestions for further

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101052813

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The Courtship by Catherine Coulter Pdf

The stunning Regency-era romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. Characters from two of Coulter’s most beloved novels in the Sherbrooke Bride series find each other in The Courtship. Helen Mayberry of Mad Jack has one passion: to track down a mystical treasure. That is, until she meets the thoroughly wicked Spenser Heatherington in a clash of the titans.

Author : Vijay Nagaswami
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Courtship
ISBN : 0143028081

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Courtship & Marriage by Vijay Nagaswami Pdf

Ways To A More Fulfilling Marriage Do You, Like Many Modern Indian Couples, Worry About Your Marriage? Do You Feel That Your Most Intimate Relationship Could Be More Fulfilling And Wonder How You And Your Partner Can Attain A Deeper Level Of Love? Psychiatrist And Marital Therapist Dr Vijay Nagaswami Offers Advice To Today S Indian Couples Who Want To Strengthen Their Marital Relationship. He Expertly Guides Partners Through Problems That They Face Routinely And Identifies Challenges Encountered In Both Arranged And Love Marriages. Written In An Accessible And Informal Style, The Book Combines Real And Fictionalized Accounts To Illustrate The More Common Difficulties Of Modern Marriage And Describes Practical Steps Towards Resolutions And Personal Growth. Intended For All Couples And Not Only Dysfunctional Ones, This Is An Indispensable Resource For One Of The Least Understood And Discussed Aspects Of Contemporary Indian Life. First Ever Such Manual Specific To India