Divorce Talk: Women and Men Make Sense of Personal Relationships

by Catherine Kohler Riessman

Book Overview

Taking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared, and how it takes crucially different forms for women and men. Drawing on interviews with adults who are divorcing, she treats their accounts as texts to be interpreted, as templates for understanding contemporary beliefs about personal relationships.
Riessman looks at the ideology of the companionate marriage: husband and wife should be each other's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515033
• ISBN13: 9780813515038
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"