Marriage, a History: Why Marriage Was Never Originally About Love
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz through the lens of systems analysis.
Viewed structurally, marriage emerges not as a timeless romantic institution, but as a social technology that evolved to organize labor, inheritance, family alliances, and economic cooperation. As governments, markets, and legal systems gradually assumed many of those functions, marriage itself evolved into something fundamentally different.
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