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Celello, Kristin.

Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / [electronic resource] : Kristin Celello. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 230 p. : ill.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA906759 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Marriage--History--United States--20th century.
Divorce--History--United States--20th century.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ535 / .C36 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.810973/0904