In this Book
- Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work." Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- EPILOGUE: Still Working
- pp. 163-166
- Bibliography
- pp. 207-222
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469606026
Related ISBN(s)
9780807832523, 9780807872215, 9780807889824
MARC Record
OCLC
966822739
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No