Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States /

Main Author: Celello, Kristin.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10313974
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Making marriage work
  • The chaos of modern marriage : experts, divorce, and the origins of marital work, 1900-1940
  • Can war marriages be made to work? Keeping women on the marital job in war and peace
  • They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s
  • Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980
  • Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Epilogue: still working.