Great Expectations : Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

by Elaine Tyler May

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0226511707

ISBN-13 9780226511702

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 15th, 1983

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 284 grams

Dimensions 2.20 x 1.40 x 0.10 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Sociology: family & relationships

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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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