Celello, Kristin.

Making marriage work : a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / Kristin Celello. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009. - 230 p. : ill.

Introduction: Making marriage work -- The chaos of modern marriage : experts, divorce, and the origins of marital work, 1900-1940 -- Can war marriages be made to work? Keeping women on the marital job in war and peace -- They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s -- Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980 -- Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s -- Epilogue: still working. HKBU Library

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Marriage--History--United States--20th century.
Divorce--History--United States--20th century.

HQ535 / C392 M 2009