Daring wives
Subtitle: insight into women's desires for extramarital affairs
By: Frances Cohen Praver.
Series: Sex, love, and psychology,
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Adultery -- United States.; Wives -- United States -- Sexual behavior.; Married women -- United States -- Psychology.
Description: "Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs. In spotlighting the many influences that spur women to cheat - from marital discord, childhood histories and sociopolitical history to pop and postmodern culture - Dr. Praver neither condemns nor condones such affairs. Instead, she aims to help wives and husbands question their own desires and actions, recognize their own roles in marital problems, and become inspired to find creative solutions. This work is an intimate and comprehensive examination of wives' desires for extramarital affairs.

Includes vignettes from younger and older wives, as well as working, stay-at-home and remarried wives, from those with and without children, and from those who turn to same-sex affairs."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Out of the closet : the fair sex and infidelity; title: Drastic double standards and daring wives; title: What a difference a century makes : female infidelity and the double standard; title: Not so sweet home : stay in the abode wives; title: Wanderlust while they work : working wives and outside romance; title: Young and restless : the world's their oyster; title: Older and bolder : under cover with a younger lover; title: Remarriages and regrets : out of step with stepfamilies; title: Same-sex affairs : wives with women lovers; title: Sex goes awry : variatons on a theme; title: Conclusion: Implications for marriage and American society.