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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." "Examining the marriage counseling profession, advice columns in women's magazines, movies, and television

Divorce --- Marriage --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- History --- 392.4/.5 <73> "19" --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--20ste eeuw

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"Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household and public labor, and between celibacy and a range of sexual relations, the single woman remains a literary and cultural focus, as she has been from the 19th to the 21st centuries. This collection offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the "singly blessed" women and "bachelor girls" of the 19th and early 20th century and "all the single ladies" of the 21st century. Essays read singleness across genre and field, offering new approaches to studying modern and contemporary single women in literature, film, and history. Authors engage scholarship from wide ranging fields of social history, women's studies, queer theory, and Black feminism. The collection reads familiar texts against the grain, rethinking archival resources, revisiting familiar figures, and exploring new sources: cookbooks, ephemera, personal documents, recovered film histories, and forms of domestic space and labor. This is a book for scholars of gender and sexuality, social history, feminist film and media scholars, and literary historians, and reflects the urgent contemporary interest in single women as a political, economic, and cultural force"--

Single women in motion pictures. --- Single women in literature --- Single women --- Public opinion. --- singleness studies, interdisciplinary humanities, literature, literary studies, media studies, popular media, single women, the US, the UK, Independent women, social anxieties, family home, domestic independence, household, housework, labor, celibacy, sexual relations, sexuality, cultural studies, singly blessed, bachelor girls, all the single ladies, social history, women's studies, queer theory, Black feminism, cook books, ephemera, film histories, domestic, gender and sexuality, feminist film, media scholars, literary history, cultural force, economic force, political force, Melodrama, Jane Armstrong Tucker, Betwixt and Between, Scott Fitzgerald, The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony, Unmarried, Divorced Mothers, Short Fiction, Spinsters, Spinsters’ Rest?, British Women’, Short Stories, Nannies, Domesticity, Cultural Imaginary.

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