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Divorce, American style : fighting for women's economic citizenship in the neoliberal era /
Divorce, American Style contests the frequent claim that marriage has become a more flexible legal status over time. Enduring ideas about marriage and the family continue to have a powerful effect on the structure of a wide range of social programs in the United States.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Divorce, 1970s style
- From alimony to breeding cows : women and the divorce law revolution
- From the altar to the grave : the beginnings of the feminist divorce reform movement
- Partners or parasites? : class, race and credit rights
- The privileges of marriage : divorced women and selective entitlements to health care
- Marriage as work, marriage as partnership : divorced women's fight for social security
- "How you lose money by being a woman" : divorce in an age of proliferating retirement savings options
- An expensive endurance test : compromising toward success in the 1980s
- "Responsibility, equity : not cruelty" changing venues for feminist divorce reformers
- "Saving the next generation" : the changing politics of divorce
- Conclusion: No-fault divorce in a morality-based welfare system.