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Getting Married

George Bernard Shaw

Playsabout 7 hours of listening

On the morning of a young couple’s wedding, concerns about what is to come inspire discussions about the institution of marriage.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. The Revolt Against Marriage
  3. Marriage Nevertheless Inevitable
  4. What Does the Word Marriage Mean?
  5. Survivals of Sex Slavery
  6. The New Attack on Marriage
  7. A Forgotten Conference of Married Men
  8. Hearth and Home
  9. Too Much of a Good Thing
  10. Large and Small Families
  11. The Gospel of Laodicea
  12. For Better for Worse
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  1. Wanted: An Immoral Statesman
  2. The Limits of Democracy
  3. The Science and Art of Politics
  4. Why Statesmen Shirk the Marriage Question
  5. The Question of Population
  6. The Right to Motherhood
  7. Monogamy, Polygyny and Polyandry
  8. The Male Revolt Against Polygyny
  9. Difference Between Oriental and Occidental Polygyny
  10. The Old Maid’s Right to Motherhood
  11. Ibsen’s Chain Stitch
  12. Remoteness of the Facts from the Ideal
  13. Difficulty of Obtaining Evidence
  14. Marriage as a Magic Spell
  15. The Impersonality of Sex
  16. The Economic Slavery of Women
  17. Unpopularity of Impersonal Views
  18. Impersonality Is Not Promiscuity
  19. Domestic Change of Air
  20. Home Manners Are Bad Manners
  21. Spurious “Natural” Affection
  22. Carrying the War Into the Enemy’s Country
  23. Shelley and Queen Victoria
  24. A Probable Effect of Giving Women the Vote
  25. The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy
  26. Divorce
  27. Importance of Sentimental Grievance
  28. Divorce Without Asking Why
  29. Economic Slavery Again the Root Difficulty
  30. Labor Exchanges and the White Slavery
  31. Divorce Favorable to Marriage
  32. Male Economic Slavery and the Rights of Bachelors
  33. The Pathology of Marriage
  34. The Criminology of Marriage
  35. Does It Matter?
  36. Christian Marriage
  37. Divorce a Sacramental Duty
  38. Othello and Desdemona
  39. What Is to Become of the Children?
  40. The Cost of Divorce
  41. Conclusions
  42. Preface
  43. Dramatis Personae
  44. Getting Married
  45. Getting Married
  46. Colophon
  47. Uncopyright

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