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Item Details
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DIVORCE
AN AMERICAN TRADITION |
| By: |
Glenda Riley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803289693 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803289697 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1997 |
| Pages: |
262 |
| Description: |
Argues that the historical conflict between anti-divorce and pro-divorce factions has prevented the development of effective, beneficial divorce laws, procedures, and policies. This book offers proposals for dealing with the subject of divorce. |
| Synopsis: |
'[A] thoroughgoing and thoroughly intelligent study ...All those tempted to join the new crusade against divorce should be required to read "Divorce: An American Tradition" cover to cover and pencil in hand. They may be forced to conclude, along with many of our ancestors, that divorce is indeed a great evil and source of much suffering. But then so is the institution that generates it - marriage, especially marriage under conditions of gross inequality between the sexes' - "New York Times Book Review".'No one has so carefully researched this subject before or written so intelligently about it' - "Chicago Tribune". 'Well researched and very readable ...[Riley] leaves her readers with suggestions for future divorce policy, calling for a more sensitive and humane approach in the practice of this centuries-old social and legal institution' - "American Historical Review".According to Glenda Riley, 'the historical conflict between anti-divorce and pro-divorce factions has prevented the development of effective, beneficial divorce laws, procedures, and policies.Today we still lack processes that move spouses out of unworkable marriages in a constructive fashion and get them back into the mainstream of life in a stable, productive condition'. Her pioneering historical overview offers proposals for dealing with a subject that now pertains to nearly half of all marriages. Professor of history at Ball State University, Glenda Riley is the author of "Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History". |
| Illustrations: |
Illus |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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