Divorce Talk: Women and Men Make Sense of Personal Relationships

by Paul Riesman and Catherine Riessman

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 closest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515025
• ISBN13: 9780813515021
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.