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More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss

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Description for More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss Hardback. The American fixation with marriage owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. This book tells the American story of a culture gripped with the hope that, with enough effort and the right guidance, more perfect marital unions are within our reach. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRLM5; JFSJ; JHBK; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.

The American fixation with marriage, so prevalent in today's debates over marriage for same-sex couples, owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. Today, millions of couples seek help to save their marriages each year. Over the intervening decades, marriage counseling has powerfully promoted the idea that successful marriages are essential to both individuals' and the nation's well-being.

Rebecca Davis reveals how couples and counselors transformed the ideal of the perfect marriage as they debated sexuality, childcare, mobility, wage earning, and autonomy, exposing both the fissures ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674047969
SKU
V9780674047969
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About Rebecca L. Davis
Rebecca L. Davis is Associate Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.

Reviews for More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
In this original and beautifully- written history of marriage counseling, Rebecca Davis demonstrates that the American obsession with marriage says as much about the quest for the perfect nation as it does about the desire for marital bliss. More Perfect Unions is essential reading for anyone interested in changing ideas of marriage, intimacy, gender, race, sexuality, and American identity itself. ... Read more

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