Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

by Elizabeth H. Pleck

Book Overview

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed cohabitation to become the chosen lifestyle of more than fifteen million Americans.

Despite this growing social acceptance, Pleck contends that when it comes to the law, cohabitors have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226671038
• ISBN13: 9780226671031
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"