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The 55 pages that link to Marriage, each with the reason it gives.

• KinshipRelated: Marriage commonly creates affinal relationships between people and groups.

• Sexual ethicsRelated: Marriage institutions shape expectations about sex, fidelity, commitment, and family life.

• FamilyRelated: Marriage links partners and may connect their relatives into family networks.

• HeteronormativityRelated: Marriage laws and customs can encode assumptions about which relationships count as ordinary or legitimate.

• Family lawRelated: Marriage establishes a legal relationship regulated by family law.

• Romantic loveRelated: Romantic love has become a central justification for marriage in many modern societies.

• MonogamyRelated: Many legal systems organize marriage around monogamy, though marriage and mating systems are distinct.

• The Second SexRelated: The book analyzes marriage as an institution that can restrict women’s economic and personal independence.

• History of the familyRelated: Marriage rules shaped inheritance, residence, and the formation of families.

• Romantic dramaRelated: Marriage often supplies romantic drama with obligations that compete with personal desire.

• Name changeRelated: Marriage may lead one or both spouses to adopt a different surname.

• Alliance theoryRelated: Marriage rules connect groups and structure the alliances the theory examines.

• Marriage plotRelated: Marriage commonly provides the marriage plot’s decisive resolution or its contested goal.

• Incest tabooRelated: Marriage rules often specify which kin relationships are permitted or forbidden.

• SurnameRelated: Marriage can affect surname choices, though practices and laws differ widely.

• HeterosexualityRelated: Many societies have organized heterosexual relationships through marriage, though marriage is not inherently heterosexual.

• FuxiRelated: Some traditions credit Fuxi with establishing marriage rites and regulating kinship.

• Sherwood AndersonRelated: Anderson’s first marriage and family life preceded his break with business and move toward writing.

• Sociology of the familyRelated: Marriage organizes intimacy, rights, resources, and family formation in changing ways.

• MatchmakingRelated: Many matchmaking traditions have aimed specifically at finding a spouse.

• IncestRelated: Marriage can create prohibited relationships between relatives by affinity, not descent.

• ConcubinageRelated: Concubinage was defined in relation to marriage and often lacked the same recognized status.

• History of human sexualityRelated: Marriage has regulated legitimate sex, property, and reproduction in many societies.

• Death (law)Related: A spouse's legal death generally ends the marriage and changes the survivor's legal position.

• Edvard WestermarckRelated: His comparative study examined marriage as a varied social institution rather than a universal fixed form.