Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

by Elaine Tyler May

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226511707
• ISBN13: 9780226511702
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"