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Great Expectations : Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
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Great Expectations : Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America Paperback - 1983

by May, Elaine Tyler

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  • Title Great Expectations : Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
  • Author May, Elaine Tyler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1983-02-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5695496-6
  • ISBN 9780226511702 / 0226511707
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.41 x 0.48 in (21.69 x 13.74 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80010590
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.809

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From the publisher

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.

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Today, Los Angeles is noted for its modernism-a city that has always been in the vanguard of cultural change, pioneering new forms of popular culture, consumer styles, and sex roles.

About the author

Elaine Tyler May is a social historian at the University of Minnesota where she is professor of American studies.

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