a history of divorce
a history of marriage
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anxiety about marriage
Author_Kristin Celello
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kristin celello
making marriage work
marriage in the 20th century united states
marriage requires work
middle class marriage
skyrocketing divorce rates
Product details
- ISBN 9780807872215
- Weight: 305g
- Dimensions: 140 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as ""work."" Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.
Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.
