Inside the American couple : new thinking/new challenges / edited by Marilyn Yalom and Laura L. Carstensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yalom, Marilyn.

Carstensen, Laura L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples--United States.

Couples.

Interpersonal relations--United States.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at least once in their lives.

Contents:

Biblical models/ Marilyn Yalom

Dearest friend / Edith B. Gelles

"The thing bartered"/ Kate Washington

"Boston marriage" among lesbians/ Esther D. Rothblum

"You'll never walk alone"/ Ellen Lewin

The couple at home/ Nel Noddings

When one of us is ill/ Mary Felstiner

Wives and husbands working together/ Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Grounds for marriage/ Arlene Skolnick

Divorce, American style/ Deborah L. Rhode

What's a wife worth?/ Myra H. Strober

Toward an understanding of Asian American interracial marriage and dating/ Jeanne L. Tsai, Diane E. Przymus, and Jennifer L. Best

Arranged marriages/ Monisha Pasupathi

Marriage in old age/ Susan Turk Charles and Laura L. Carstensen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520927315

0520927311

9781597346801

1597346802

OCLC:

475929799