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

By: Celello, KristinContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009Description: xiii, 230 p. : illSubject(s): Marriage -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Divorce -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.810973/0904 LOC classification: HQ535 | .C36 2009Online resources: Click to View
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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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