Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as work. Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.

Author: Kristin Celello
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/2012
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.55w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780807872215

About the Author
Celello, Kristin: - Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.