Making Marriage Work (eBook)

A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

Kristin Celello (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
248 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-8982-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;work."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 13 illus., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: a history of divorce • a history of marriage • anxiety about marriage • kristin celello • making marriage work • marriage in the 20th century united states • marriage requires work • middle class marriage • skyrocketing divorce rates
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-8982-2 / 0807889822
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-8982-4 / 9780807889824