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Getting Married
George Bernard Shaw
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About this book
On the morning of a young couple’s wedding, concerns about what is to come inspire discussions about the institution of marriage.
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- Titlepage
- Imprint
- Preface to Getting Married
- The Revolt Against Marriage
- Marriage Nevertheless Inevitable
- What Does the Word Marriage Mean?
- Survivals of Sex Slavery
- The 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
- Divorce Favorable to Marriage
- Male Economic Slavery and the Rights of Bachelors
- The Pathology of Marriage
- The Criminology of Marriage
- Does It Matter?
- Christian Marriage
- Divorce a Sacramental Duty
- Othello and Desdemona
- What Is to Become of the Children?
- The Cost of Divorce
- Conclusions
- Preface
- Dramatis Personae
- Getting Married
- Colophon
- Uncopyright
Edition & source
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Edition contributors
- The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
- George Bernard Shaw (aut, wpr)
- Frank Weston Benson (art)
- Eve Sobol (trc)
- David Widger (trc)
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team (trc)
- Asher Smith (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
- David Reimer (pfr)