| Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America Revised Edition Contributor(s): May, Elaine Tyler (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226511707 ISBN-13: 9780226511702 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1983 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships |
| Dewey: 306.809 |
| LCCN: 80010590 |
| Series: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.41" W x 8.54" (0.40 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |