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Review: Marriage, A History

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Marriage, A History – Stephanie Coontz

To be honest, I thought it’d be more of an interesting book than it turned out to be.

I am interested in society, psychology, sociology and differences between men and women which

I didn’t like it at all. 20% of the book was just pages and pages of NOTES. The book actually turned out to be a lot thinner than I expected and I felt my eyes glazing over through a lot of the first part of the book where they talked about the history of marriage.

I think it was just the writer’s style I didn’t like. It was too.. jumpy. It went from one thought to another, even though it tried to be categorized with the upper class versus peasant marriages, but within the actual category itself, I couldn’t follow her writing style.

Maybe it was just me being unfocused.. or I just couldn’t get into the topic. and be really into the book.

The best part was the last part of the book and not because it was near the ending. But because it was more relevant to today.

I do however, have to give her props for doing a LOT of research. The statistics are top notch, and the comparisons between different times in history were good.

My verdict: I wouldn’t recommend it.

Maybe I’m more interested in Mistresses, a History. Something more sordid.

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