Introduction

1. An Archaeology of American Monogamy

2. Perfecting Community Rules with State Laws

3. Domestic Relations on the National Agenda

4. Toward a Single Standard

5. Monogamy as the Law of Social Life

6. Consent, the American Way

7. The Modern Architecture of Marriage

8. Public Sanctity for a Private Realm

9. Marriage Revised and Revived

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Nancy F. Cott is Professor of History at Harvard University.