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Making Marriage Work - Kristin Celello

Making Marriage Work

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

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2012 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7221-5 (ISBN)
CHF 54,90 inkl. MwSt
Presents an account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as 'work'. This book describes how professionals and the public worked together to define the nature of marital work throughout the twentieth century.
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.

Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.

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