Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

by Elaine Tyler May

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226511707

ISBN13:9780226511702

Release Date:February 1983

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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Family Relationships Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Parenting & Relationships Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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