Description
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.
About the Author
Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9780807872215
Author Kristin Celello
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 305g
