More Perfect Unions : : The American Search for Marital Bliss / / Rebecca L. Davis.
The American fixation with marriage, so prevalent in today's debates over marriage for same-sex couples, owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. Today, millions of couples seek help to save their marriages each year....
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: The Pursuit of Marital Happiness
- 1. Shaken Foundations
- 2. Searching for Economic and Sexual Security
- 3. Counseling Prosperity
- 4. Quantifying Compatibility
- 5. Sacred Partnerships
- 6. Marriage under Fire
- 7. The State of Marriage
- Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Battlegrounds
- Abbreviations and Archival Collections
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index