Making marriage work : a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States
Title:
Making marriage work : a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States
Author:
Celello, Kristin.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780807832523
Format :
Book
