Great Expectations : Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226511707
ISBN-13
9780226511702
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 1983
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
284 grams
Dimensions
2.20 x 1.40 x 0.10 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historySociology: family & relationships
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages.
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