Getting Married
by Bernard Shaw
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About This Book
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. From Shaw we have a "marital" play of talk, not action -- but talk that seems to come from the best debating society; it's more of a dialogue than a play. But the talk is always stimulating and entertaining. Shaw is not concerned with marriage as an activity; he is focused on marriage as an institution.
Chapters (53)(click to expand)
- GETTING MARRIED
- Preface To "Getting Married"
- 1908
- PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED
- THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
- MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
- WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
- SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
- A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
- A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
- HEARTH AND HOME
- TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
- LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
- THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
- FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
- WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
- THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
- THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
- WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
- THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
- THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
- MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
- THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
- THE OLD MAID'S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
- IBSEN'S CHAIN STITCH
- REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
- DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
- MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
- THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
- THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
- UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
- IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
- DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
- HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
- SPURIOUS "NATURAL" AFFECTION
- CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
- SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
- A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
- THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
- DIVORCE
- IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
- DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
- ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
- LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
- CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
- DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
- OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
- WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
- THE COST OF DIVORCE
- CONCLUSIONS
- GETTING MARRIED
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