Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely entertaining book, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian couples to demonstrate how recent the ...(展开全部)

For most of our history, marriage was not a relationship based on mutual love between a breadwinning husband and an at-home wife, but an institution devoted to acquiring wealth, power, and property. Picking a mate on the basis of something as irrational as love would have been considered absurd. Only in the nineteenth century did marriage move to the denter of people's emotiona...(展开全部)

Preeminent medieval scholar, George Duby, argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism - both bastions of masculinity - as he reveals the role of women, what they represent, and what they were in the Middle Ages. Written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is an ideal entr e into Duby's th...(展开全部)

Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism--both bastions of masculinity--as he reveals the role of women, what they represented, and what they were in the Middle Ages. Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is an ideal entree int...(展开全部)

In this volume, now available in paperback, Georges Duby addresses the themes of love and marriage in the middle ages and shows that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he ...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)