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Making marriage work : a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / Kristin Celello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Celello, Kristin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--United States--History--20th century.
- Marriage.
- Divorce--United States--History--20th century.
- Divorce.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807832529
- 9780807832523
- OCLC:
- 236117320
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