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Untying the Knot
Roderick Phillips
其他書名
A Short History of Divorce
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1991-06-28
主題
Family & Relationships / Divorce & Separation
History / World
History / Social History
ISBN
0521423708
9780521423700
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bibVS8_PDXMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The rapid spread of divorce since the 1960s has dramatically affected family life in Western society. Extensive research has been devoted to this recent period of change, and yet the long-term history of divorce has remained surprisingly obscure. Roderick Phillips, author of the highly acclaimed magisterial history of divorce, Putting Asunder, has now abridged his fascinating and wide-ranging study for a general readership. Encompassing religious and secular attitudes to divorce, the evolution of divorce laws, and changing responses to marriage breakdown, Untying the Knot offers a highly readable and thought-provoking history of the phenomenon, placed illuminatingly against a variety of social, economic, political and cultural backgrounds.