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Getting Married

by George Bernard Shaw

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  1. 1The Revolt Against Marriage
  2. 2Marriage Nevertheless Inevitable
  3. 3What Does the Word Marriage Mean
  4. 4Survivals of Sex Slavery
  5. 5A New Attack on Marriage
  6. 6A Forgotten Conference of Married Men
  7. 7Hearth and Home
  8. 8Too Much of a Good Thing
  9. 9Large and Small Families
  10. 10The Gospel of Laodicea
  11. 11For Better for Worse
  12. 12Wanted: An Immoral Statesman
  13. 13The Limits of Democracy
  14. 14The Science and Art of Politics
  15. 15Why Statesmen Shirk the Marriage Question
  16. 16The Question of Population
  17. 17The Right to Motherhood
  18. 18Monogamy, Polygyny and Polyandry
  19. 19The Male Revolt Against Polygyny
  20. 20Difference Between Oriental and Occidental Polygyny
  21. 21The Old Maid’s Right to Motherhood
  22. 22Ibsen’s Chain Stitch
  23. 23Remoteness of the Facts From the Ideal
  24. 24Difficulty of Obtaining Evidence
  25. 25Marriage as a Magic Spell
  26. 26The Impersonality of Sex
  27. 27The Economic Slavery of Women
  28. 28Unpopularity of Impersonal Views
  29. 29Impersonality Is Not Promiscuity
  30. 30Domestic Change of Air
  31. 31Home Manners Are Bad Manners
  32. 32Spurious “Natural” Affection
  33. 33Carrying the War Into the Enemy’s Country
  34. 34Shelley and Queen Victoria
  35. 35A Probable Effect of Giving Women the Vote
  36. 36The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy
  37. 37Divorce
  38. 38Importance of Sentimental Grievance
  39. 39Divorce Without Asking Why
  40. 40Economic Slavery Again the Root Difficulty
  41. 41Labor Exchanges and the White Slavery
  42. 42Christian Marriage
  43. 43Divorce a Sacramental Duty
  44. 44Othello and Desdemona
  45. 45What Is to Become of the Children?
  46. 46The Cost of Divorce
  47. 47Conclusions
  48. 48Getting Married

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