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Divorce, American style : fighting for women's economic citizenship in the neoliberal era / Suzanne Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Suzanne, Author.
- Series:
- Politics and Culture in Modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divorce--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- Divorce.
- Women social reformers--United States--History--20th century.
- Women social reformers.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Women's rights.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.) : 10 illus.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Divorce, American Style contests the frequent claim that marriage has become a more flexible legal status over time. Enduring ideas about marriage and the family continue to have a powerful effect on the structure of a wide range of social programs in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Divorce, 1970s style
- From alimony to breeding cows : women and the divorce law revolution
- From the altar to the grave : the beginnings of the feminist divorce reform movement
- Partners or parasites? : class, race and credit rights
- The privileges of marriage : divorced women and selective entitlements to health care
- Marriage as work, marriage as partnership : divorced women's fight for social security
- "How you lose money by being a woman" : divorce in an age of proliferating retirement savings options
- An expensive endurance test : compromising toward success in the 1980s
- "Responsibility, equity : not cruelty" changing venues for feminist divorce reformers
- "Saving the next generation" : the changing politics of divorce
- Conclusion: No-fault divorce in a morality-based welfare system.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
- ISBN:
- 9780812297881
- 0812297881
- OCLC:
- 1244622421
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