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Wife, Inc. : the business of marriage in the twenty-first century /
After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of mar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Critical cultural communication.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the wife industry
- Enterprising wives: dating as labor in hard times
- Almost wives: emotional regulation, marriage television, and the plight of the modern bride
- Return of the housewife: putting an icon back to work
- From basketball wives to extreme cougar wives: niche marketing the wife brand
- Good wives: public infidelity and the national politics of spousehood.