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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.