Making marriage work [electronic resource] : a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / Kristin Celello.

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Celello, Kristin

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ebrary, Inc

Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 230 p. : illISBN:

0807832529 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807832523 (cloth : alk. paper)

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306.810973/0904 22

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HQ535 .C36 2009eb

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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.

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

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