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Author May, Elaine Tyler.

Title Great expectations : marriage and divorce in post-Victorian America / Elaine Tyler May.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1980]
©1980

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.809 M466G    Check Shelf
Description viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Los Angeles and the Victorian synthesis -- Early divorce in the City of the Angels -- The home: from sacrifice to satisfaction -- The path to modern marriage -- The romantic ideal in crisis -- Sex: sin or salvation -- Wives at work -- The pressure to provide -- Epilogue: the pursuit of happiness.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Marriage -- United States -- History.
Divorce -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Divorce -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
ISBN 0226511669
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