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Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

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Series: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

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ISBN10: 0226511707
ISBN13: 9780226511702
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Feb 15 1983
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.41 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages.

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