Women and the common life: love, marriage, and feminism [First edition] 9780393348408, 0393348407

The comedy of love and the Querelle des Femmes : aristocratic satire on marriage -- The mysteries of attraction -- The s

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Women and the common life: love, marriage, and feminism [First edition]
 9780393348408, 0393348407

Table of contents :
The comedy of love and the Querelle des Femmes : aristocratic satire on marriage --
The mysteries of attraction --
The suppression of clandestine marriage in England : the Marriage Act of 1753 --
Bourgeois domesticity, the revolt against patriarchy, and the attack on fashion --
The sexual division of labor, the decline of civic culture, and the rise of the suburbs --
Gilligan's island --
The mismeasure of man --
Misreading the facts about families --
Life in the therapeutic state.

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