Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties
Subtitle: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199856749
Subjects: Marriage; Social problems; Civilization, modern
Description: Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. Each chapter in Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties considers a moment in which proclamations of marriage crisis have erupted, revealing how people deployed the institution to debate relationships, the nation, and the problems of both.