Sexual Bargaining: Power Politics in the American Marriage

by John H. Scanzoni

Is the institution of marriage in America breaking down? Is marriage as we have known it largely irrelevant? Are the forms of marriage changing? Are the changes in women's roles in society related to the breakdown, irrelevance, and formal alteration of marriage? In this updated edition of his fundamental study of modern marriage, John Scanzoni challenges the widespread assumption that marriage is a dying institution. By analyzing the "reward seeking"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226735648
• ISBN13: 9780226735641
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 180 Pages