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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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." "Examining the marriage counseling profession, advice columns in women's magazines, movies, and television

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-222) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908818-0-9

979-88-9313-272-4

1-4696-0602-X

0-8078-8982-2

OCLC:

435670970