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Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying

Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying Paperback / softback - 2000

by Amy A. Kass

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Paperback / softback. New. The editors of this book argue that there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony. The volume offers an anthology of source readings in response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love and marriage.
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  • Title Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
  • Author Amy A. Kass
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 656
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-02-28
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780268019600
  • ISBN 9780268019600 / 0268019606
  • Weight 2.02 lbs (0.92 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.24 x 1.42 in (23.98 x 15.85 x 3.61 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Marriage, Courtship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99054852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.734

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Citations

  • Brill's Content, 02/01/2001, Page 134
  • Commonweal, 04/06/2001, Page 27

About the author

Amy A. Kass (1940-2015) was an American academic and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Kass spent most of her career as a professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago. Her scholarly interests included courtship and marriage, civic engagement, citizenship and citizen formation, and philanthropy. She is the author of American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction.

Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005. He is the author of The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature and, with James Q. Wilson, The Ethics of Human Cloning.