Divorce, American Style : : Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era / / Suzanne Kahn.
In the 1970s, the divorce rate in the United States doubled, and longtime homemakers suddenly found themselves at risk of poverty, not only because their husband's job was their sole source of income, but also because their insurance, retirement, and credit worthiness were all tied to their spo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. Divorce, 1970s Style
- PART I. THE DIVORCE REVOLUTION
- Chapter 1. From Alimony Drones to Breeding Cows: Women and the Divorce Law Revolution
- Chapter 2. From the Altar to the Grave: The Beginnings of the Feminist Divorce Reform Movement
- PART II. A GALAXY OF LAWS
- Chapter 3. Partners or Parasites? Class, Race, and Credit Rights
- Chapter 4. The Privileges of Marriage: Divorced Women and Selective Entitlements to Health Care
- Chapter 5. Marriage as Work, Marriage as Partnership: Divorced Women’s Fight for Social Security
- Chapter 6. “How You Lose Money by Being a Woman”: Divorce in an Age of Proliferating Retirement Savings Options
- Chapter 7. An Expensive Endurance Test: Compromising Toward Success in the 1980s
- PART III. STABLE DIVORCE RATES AND UNSTABLE POLITICS
- Chapter 8. “Responsibility, Equity; Not Cruelty”: Changing Venues for Feminist Divorce Reformers
- Chapter 9. “Saving the Next Generation”: The Changing Politics of Divorce
- Conclusion. No- Fault Divorce in a Morality- Based Welfare System
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments