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....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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