Courtship and Marriage and the Changing American Family
Author: Lauren Kelly
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Published: 2019-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9781524982812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lauren Kelly
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Published: 2019-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9781524982812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cathy Luchetti
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Westward Expansion Was A Time Of radical change in America. The upheaval of moving west and beginning a new life from scratch was difficult for those who made the trip. "Except for love..." said Isabella Bird of Colorado in 1873, "this is a wretched existence." In spite of the rough conditions and frequent shortages of suitable partners in the West, the pioneers met, fell in love and married, but were forced to adapt their courting to a frontier life. The civilized comforts and proprieties of the East yielded to many new ways of finding a mate, from personal ads to rental brides. The West was not all wild, however: Religion still played a strong role in western life, whether lovers were Mormon, Catholic, Baptist or Buddhist; and the traditions of immigrants from Europe, Asia and the Americas all helped to form courtship and marriage rituals on the frontier. Through period photographs, extracts from journals and letters and reminiscences, Cathy Luchetti's subjects tell the true story of romantic life on the American frontier, reminding us of what it was like to fall in love then -- and now. "I sat there in the dark waiting. I had waited only a few minutes. when I heard the longed-for footsteps come to my gate. I went to meet him and would have thrown my arms around him, dust covered and dirty as he was, but he would not allow it. He caught me by the arms, and with he on one side of the low fence and I on the other, he delivered a tirade of accusations and abuse.... "Then he put his hand on my face, pressing gently, and said, 'Now, old lady, if you're going to marry me you've got to say so right now, and we'll get married and camp under a tree, for I haven't a damn cent.What d'ya say?' "I had been waiting all this time for the tirade to be over so I could say yes. Now I said it. "'Good God, old lady! Do you mean it?' And it didn't take him long to jump that low fence. He didn't even stop to open the gate. Then our arms went around each other in one long embrace." -- Sarah Olds "And so I told her girl, that I would come the next Thursday, and bring a horse, bridle, and saddle for her, and she must be ready to go. Her mother declared I shouldn't have her; but I know'd I should, if somebody else didn't get her before Thursday." -- David Crockett
Author: Leslie Gourse
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Author Leslie Gourse has created a helpful guide for adapting and incorporating traditional Native American marriage customs into today's modern weddings. Descriptions of weddings of the Hopi, Lakota, Iroquois, Oglala, and others provide a historic sense of Native traditions. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Author: Beth L. Bailey
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1989-08-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1421412470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: John T. Molloy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-12-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0446554138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking book--based on years of the same thorough research that made the "Dress For Success" books national bestsellers--about how women can statistically improve their chances of getting married.
Author: Jennifer S. Hirsch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0520228715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1960 the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6 children per woman. Such changes are part of a transformation explored in this ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta.
Author: Ellen K. Rothman
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Thomas Ford Hoult
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780316373968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Diana O'Hara
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2002-10-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780719062513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Joshua Harris
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1588601579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joshua Harris's first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down...and people are still talking. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm.Clear, stylish typeset, with user-friendly links to referenced Scripture.