More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss

by Rebecca L. Davis and Rebecca L. Davis

Book Overview

The American fixation with marriage, so prevalent in today's debates over marriage for same-sex couples, owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. Today, millions of couples seek help to save their marriages each year. Over the intervening decades, marriage counseling has powerfully promoted the idea that successful marriages are essential to both individuals' and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047966
• ISBN13: 9780674047969
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"