Great Expectations By Elaine Tyler May 9780226511702 (Paperback)

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Sociology: family & relationsh

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University of chicago press

Great Expectations : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226511702 : 0226511707 : 01 Feb 1983 : 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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