Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.02.1983 - 200 Seiten During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
I Tradition in Transition in the Late Nineteenth Century | 13 |
II Matrimony Unveiled in the Early Twentieth Century | 73 |
The Pursuit of Happiness | 156 |
Tables | 165 |
Notes | 183 |
| 195 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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