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An American Tradition
出版U of Nebraska Press, 1997-01-01
主題Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & FamilyHistory / United States / General
ISBN97808032896970803289693
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FzxZ2YgfD_0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"[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. A professor of history at Ball State University, Glenda Riley is the author of Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History.