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Authors: Marilyn Yalom
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bride’s quilts, 208, 251,
The Long Engagement
(Hughes),
179
in medieval Europe, 51 in Native Americans,
233–34
in Roman times, 28
in Tudor England, 112–14 in Victorian England,
178–80
Cranach, Lucas, the elder, 2, 101
Cranmer, Archbishop, 107
Crosby, Hannah, 258 Cross, Marie Bywater, 251 Crow, Polly, 329
“Daddy’s Gone to War” (Tuttle), 323
Daily Telegraph
letters to, 268, 270–75
Danton, Georges, 166
Dati, Gregorio, 84 Daughters of the American
Revolution,
284
,
343
Daumier, Honoré, 383 David, Jacques Louis, 162,
Davis, Hugh, 144
Davis, Katherine Bement, 309–10
Day, Doris, 358 “Dear Boys” column
(Somerville), 336–38
Debay, Auguste, 182 “Declaration of the Rights of
Women and the Female Citizen” (de Gouges), 164
Degler, Carl, 216, 297
D’Emilio, John, 301, 313
d’Épinay, Madame, 162 Detrick, Carrie Lassell,
227–28
Dialects of Sex
(Firestone), 371
Diana (slave), 220
diaphragms, 300
Dick-Read, Grantly, 358
Dickens, Charles, 180
Dickerman, Elizabeth, 138
Dickinson, Emily, 134, 175
Dickson, Rosa, 326–27 distaff and spindle, 29 divorce
after World War II, 350 in ancient Greece, 22, 23 in Biblical times, 4–6 and the Jewish culture,
92–93
in the late twentieth century, 353–54,
395–96, 399
and the Mormons, 257
divorce (
continued
)
in Puritan New England, 135
in Roman times, 30–31 serial marriages, 396–97 in the Victorian era,
186–87, 187–88, 286
Dixon, Helen, 121
Dod, John, 126
Doll’s House
(Ibsen), 263–64 Donne, John, 122
“Donors Engelbrechts and his wife” (painting), 94
Dorothea of Montau, 80–81 Doryphorus, 40
dowries
in Biblical times, 4, 5
in medieval Europe, 47, 50–52, 82–88
in the late Victorian era, 265
Ducis, Jean François, 162, 164
ducking stools, 205
Dudley, Dorothy, 127,
133–34
Dudley, Mary Winthrop, 138 Dudley, Thomas, 127, 134
Duffey, Eliza, 301
Duplay, Elisabeth, 167–68
Earl, Ralph,
157
Easton, Elizabeth, 111
Eck, Mrs., 351
Edmondston, Catherine, 204 education (of women), 172
in the antebellum South, 204
in late twentieth century, 388
in medieval Europe, 73 in Puritan New England,
131–32
in Stuart England, 126
in Victorian era, 195, 285 on the Western frontier,
259–60, 261–62
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences
1815–1897
(Stanton),
196
Eisenhower, Mamie, 363
Elkanah, 6–7
Ellis, Havelock, 306, 308 Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 182,
183
Ellsworth, Oliver and Mrs.,
Émile
(Rousseau), 147
Emma
(Austen), 183 employment
in medieval Europe, 73–74
in postwar waives, 348–51
Rosie the Riveter, 322 shipbuilding wives,
326–30
at the turn-of-the-century, 292–93
in Victorian America, 288–91
volunteerism as, 342–48,
365–66
in World War II, 317–20, 320–26
See also
housework employment (work
revolution), 380–91 dual-earner couples,
380–81, 385–87
househusbands, 381–83 husbands, working
mother’s effects on, 384 the marriage market,
396–97
maternal leave, 385–86
opposition, 390–91 women, longevity of,
389–90
women, lower earning power of, 389–90 engagement.
See
courtship and engagement
England
marital laws, 185–89 Married Women’s Property
Act, 188–89, 227
New Woman in, 268–70 Tudor and Stuart period,
108–25
the Victorian era, 177–85 Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA), 363, 370–71,
“Equality of Persons” (Donne), 122
Eratosthenes, 23
Eroticus
(Plutarch), 42
Euphiletos, 23
European Feminism, 1700–1950
(Offen), 164
Evans, Elizabeth, 295
Eve, 1,
2
, 58
as the “bad” wife, 18, 182 as an improvement, 3
and the “taint” of sexuality, 15
Eve
(Norris), 14
Everett, Millard, 311
Factors in the Sex Lives of Twenty
two
Hundred Women
(Davis), 309
Faludi, Susan, 390 Family and Medical Leave
Act of 1993, 385–86
Family Circle,
387
Faragher, John, 260
Father Knows Best
, 358–59
Father’s Legacy to his Daughter, A
(Gregory), 148
Fear of Flying
(Jong), 372 Federation of Women’s Clubs,
344
Felicie, Jacoba, 74 Fellows, Elvina Apperson,
240–41
Female Eunuch
(Greer), 372 female sexuality
early Christian teachers and, 15
in the Victorian era, 294–98
See also
abortion; birth control
Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan), 201, 369 feminism (and the feminist
movement), 190
Age of Enlightenment and, 164–65
and Eve, 3
opposition to, 266–68,
357, 370, 390–91
Seneca Falls Declaration, 190, 202
suffrage, 193–94
support of, 265–66
in the Victorian era, 189, 265–66
literature, 372–73
Fidelio
(Beethoven), 174
Fields, Annie, 280
Fifteen Joys of Marriage,
76 Firestone, Shulamith, 371
Fitzhugh, George, 203–4
Flaubert, Gustave, 276–77 Flint, Mrs. (slave owner),
220–21
Floyd, Major, 206–7
Flux
(Orenstein), 399 Foote, Edward B., 295,
300
Foote, Mary Hallock, 301 Forrest, Mistress, 141
Forrest, Thomas, 141
4–H Clubs, 344 Fournival, Richard de, 68 France
Civil Code of 1804, 172 “Declaration of the Right of
Man and the Citizen,” 164,
173
the Revolution, 161–71 women under the
Republic, 171–74
Frederick, Elektor, 102
Frederick II, 12, 52
Freedman, Estelle, 301, 313
Freud, Sigmund, 308, 361
Friedan, Betty, 201, 369 Friedman, Lawrence M.,
303
“From Housewife to Ship- fitter” (Wilkinson), 327
Frontrunner
magazine, 291
Fruits of Philosophy; or, The Private Companion of Young Married People
(Knowlton), 299
Fulbert, 61–62, 62, 63
Fulvia, 35
Future of Marriage, The
(Bernard), 394
Gabber, Josephine, 315
Gallop, Hannah, 132 Galloway, Grace Growden,
161
Garcia, Andrew, 235
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 187
Gelles, Edith, 151, 153, 173
Generation of Vipers
(Wylie), 362
“Geneva Bible,” 133
Gift, Theo, 175
Gilder, Helena, 301
Giles, Nell, 350–51
Gillis, John, 145
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 288–91, 291–93,
387
Gilman, George Houghton, 291
Giovanni, 88–92
Gissing, George, 277–79
Glatz, Kaspar, 102 Gleason, Catarina Watson,
250–51
Gleason, James Henry, 250–51
Godelieve, Saint,
53
Godlie Forme of Household Government: For the Ordering of Private Families, according to the direction of God’s Word, A
(Dod), 97, 126
Godey’s Lady’s Book,
195,
209
,
“Goodbye and Good Luck” (Paley), 352
Good Housekeeping Cookbook,
339
Good Housekeeping
magazine, 286, 393
Good Wives
(Ulrich), 138 Gouge, William, 110–11 Gouges, Olympe de, 164 Graeme, Elizabeth, 160–61
Graeme, Henry, 160–61
Grand, Sarah, 276
Grandchamp, Sophie, 165
Greek times, 16–25 Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra, 10, 19 Jason and Medea, 19 Odysseus and Penelope,
16–19
Oedipus and Jocasta, 19 Greer, Germaine, 372 Greg, W. R., 182
Gregory, John, 148
Griffitts, Hannah, 158
Grimké, Sarah, 194
Guinevere, 66
Guthrie, Evelyn, 317–20, 344
Gutman, Herbert, 218
Hafen, John, 255
Hafen, Mary Ann, 255–56 Hagar, 7
Hale, Sarah Josepha, 195, 209
Hall, Radclyffe, 308
Hamilton, Cicely, 292
Hamilton, Gilbert, 309–10
handfasting, 112–13
Hannah, 6–7
Hardy, Thomas, 277
Hargrove, Maybelle, 346
Harper’s Magazine,
342, 348
Harris, John, 138
Hartog, Hendrik, 191 Haskell, Ella (daughter), 247 Haskell, Rachell, 247–49
Hawkins, Jane, 128 Hayden, Mary Jane, 228 Haywire, Joan, 123 Helen of Troy, 18
Héloïse, 60–65, 69, 91
Hemingway, Ernest, 16, 362
Henderson, David, 217
Henry VIII, 108
Hepburn, Katharine, 358
Hera, 16, 21
Higgins, Michael, 304 Hill, Master (slave owner),
217
History of Rome
(Livy), 25
Hite Report,
373
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 334 Hoby, Margaret Dakins,
124–25
Hoby, Thomas, 124, 125
Hollick, Frederick, 299
Holman, Eliza, 175
Homemakers’ Clubs, 344
Homer, 16, 21–22, 29
homosexuality
in ancient Greece, 23–24 in Biblical times, 13 marriage alternatives, 398 in Roman times, 40–41
Hopkins, Anne Yale, 131 Hopkins, Edward, 131 Hopkins, Sarah
Winnemucca, 233
Horney, Karen, 361
househusbands, 381–83 housework (and chores),
48
in antebellum South, 208, 210, 210–12
in Colonial America, 148–50
domestic life,
248
in the late twentieth Century, 364–69
in medieval Europe, 74 on the Oregon Trail,
238–39
philanthropy, 181
in Puritan New England, 137–38, 138–40
servants, 137–38
in the Victorian era, 181, 183, 192, 288–91
on the Western frontier, 229–30, 256–57,
259–60
during World War II, 324, 336–38, 339–43
See also
employment Hubbard, Robert, 113
Hughes, Arthur, 179
Human Comedy
(Balzac), 276 Huntingdon, Countless, 124
Husbands and Wives
(study),
366–67
Hutchinson, Anne, 135–36
Hygiene of Marriage, The
(Everett), 311 “Hymn to Aphrodite”
(Sappho), 24–25
I Love Lucy
, 359
Ibsen, Henrik, 263–64, 265
Iliad
(Homer), 21–22 “In Praise of Marriage”
(Christine de Pizan), 81
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Child), 212
Indiana
(Sand), 276
Intimate Matters
(D’Emilio/Freedman), 301
Isaac, 7, 8
Ishmael, 7
Iseut, 65–66
Jacob, 8–9
Jacobs, Harriet, 212, 220
James I, 126, 127
Jane Eyre
(Brontë), 184 Janin, Albert, 282–83,
284–85
Janin, Violet Blair, 281–85 Jason, 19
Jerome, Saint, 15, 57, 58
Jesus, 98
and adultery, 12
and homosexuality, 13
on marriage, 12, 15 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 280 Job, 10
Jocasta, 19
John Birch Society, 370 Johns, Auntie Thomas,
220
Johnson, Lyndon, 369 Johnston, Frances Benjamin,
224, 284
Jong, Erica, 372
Jordan, Cecily, 142
Joseph, 11, 16
Josselson, Ruthellen, 384
Jovinian, 57
Joy of Sex
(Comfort), 372 Judah, Gershom ben, 55 Judaism
conceptions of marriage, 13–14
and divorce, 92–93 husband living with the
bride’s family, 84–85
Ketubah
(marriage contract), 4,
5
, 84
marriage ceremony, 55–56
and polygamy, 3–4, 7
wedding ring,
57
Jude the Obscure
(Hardy), 277 Julia (daughter of Augustus),
31
Julia (wife of Pompey), 31 Julia Secundina, 39
Julian of Norwich, 81
Jungfrauspiegel, Der,
58
Junior League, 344
Juvenal, 40–41, 41
Kay, Ellen, 265
Keayne, Benjamin, 134–35
Keayne, Sarah, 134–35
Keller, Ludwig, 105
Kelly, Frances, 188
Kelly, James, 188
Kemble, Fanny, 221–22
Kempe, Margery, 70, 77–81
Kennedy, Robert, 370
Kerber, Linda, 172
Kesselman, Amy, 330
Ketubah
(marriage contract), 4,
5
Killpack, Marjorie Reid, 344–45
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 369, 370
King, Nancy, 217
Kinsey, Alfred, 310–11, 355
Kinsey report, 355–57, 393
Knowlton, Charles, 299
Komarovsky, Mirra, 364
Koehler, Lyle, 140
La Bas, Philippe, 167–68 Laban, 8, 9
Ladies’ Association, 160
Ladies’ Home Journal,
286, 288, 350–51, 364,
392–93
Laius, 19
Lambilly, Marie-Victoire de, 169–70
Lancelot, 66
Lancelot
(Chrétien), 66
Lass, Virginia, 281–85
latchkey children, 323 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,
162,
163
, 164
Lavoisier, Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 162,