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  • Making Marriage Work

  • A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth Century United States
  • Written by: Kristin Celello
  • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
  • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

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Making Marriage Work

Written by: Kristin Celello
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
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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 20th 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.

©2009 Kristin Celello (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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