The comedy of love and the Querelle des Femmes : aristocratic satire on marriage -- The mysteries of attraction -- The suppression of clandestine marriage in England : the Marriage Act of 1753 -- Bourgeois domesticity, the revolt against patriarchy, and the attack on fashion -- The sexual division of labor, the decline of civic culture, and the rise of the suburbs -- Gilligan's island -- The mismeasure of man -- Misreading the facts about families -- Life in the therapeutic state