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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Leonard, Suzanne (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.