Making marriage work
Subtitle: a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States
By: Kristin Celello.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780807832523
Subjects: Marriage -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Divorce -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Making marriage work; title: The chaos of modern marriage : experts, divorce, and the origins of marital work, 1900-1940; title: Can war marriages be made to work? keeping women on the marital job in war and peace; title: They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s; title: Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980; title: Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s; title: Epilogue: still working.