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More Perfect Unions : The American Search for Marital Bliss /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Rebecca L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: The Pursuit of Marital Happiness
  • 1. Shaken Foundations
  • 2. Searching for Economic and Sexual Security
  • 3. Counseling Prosperity
  • 4. Quantifying Compatibility
  • 5. Sacred Partnerships
  • 6. Marriage under Fire
  • 7. The State of Marriage
  • Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Battlegrounds
  • Abbreviations and Archival Collections
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index