Making Marriage Modern

by Christina Simmons

Book Overview

The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband formed a relationship based on greater sexual and psychological equality. In Making Marriage Modern, Christina Simmons narrates the development of this new companionate marriage ideal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064119
• ISBN13: 9780195064117
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"