Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

by Kristin Celello

Book Overview

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807832529
• ISBN13: 9780807832523
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"