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Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
University of Chicago Press, 1983 Paper: 978-0-226-51170-2 | Cloth: 978-0-226-51166-5 Library of Congress Classification HQ536.M37 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.80973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: 1865-1918 | 1918-1932 | Divorce | Marriage | Marriage & Long-Term Relationships See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
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University of Chicago Press, 1983
Paper: 978-0-226-51170-2
Cloth: 978-0-226-51166-5
Paper: 978-0-226-51170-2
Cloth: 978-0-226-51166-5
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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