001481703 000__ 04552nam\a22009375i\4500 001481703 001__ 1481703 001481703 003__ DE-B1597 001481703 005__ 20231108091721.0 001481703 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001481703 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001481703 008__ 231108s2010\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001481703 020__ $$a9780674056251 001481703 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674056251$$2doi 001481703 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)457592 001481703 035__ $$a(OCoLC)758390614 001481703 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979752464 001481703 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001481703 0410_ $$aeng 001481703 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001481703 050_4 $$aHQ10.5.U6$$bD38 2010eb 001481703 072_7 $$aHIS036000$$2bisacsh 001481703 08204 $$a362.82/86$$222 001481703 1001_ $$aDavis, Rebecca L. ,$$eauthor. 001481703 24510 $$aMore Perfect Unions :$$bThe American Search for Marital Bliss /$$cRebecca L. Davis. 001481703 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2010] 001481703 264_4 $$c©2010 001481703 300__ $$a1 online resource 001481703 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001481703 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001481703 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001481703 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001481703 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tPrologue: The Pursuit of Marital Happiness --$$t1. Shaken Foundations --$$t2. Searching for Economic and Sexual Security --$$t3. Counseling Prosperity --$$t4. Quantifying Compatibility --$$t5. Sacred Partnerships --$$t6. Marriage under Fire --$$t7. The State of Marriage --$$tEpilogue: Twenty-First-Century Battlegrounds --$$tAbbreviations and Archival Collections --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001481703 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001481703 520__ $$aThe American fixation with marriage, so prevalent in today's debates over marriage for same-sex couples, owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. Today, millions of couples seek help to save their marriages each year. Over the intervening decades, marriage counseling has powerfully promoted the idea that successful marriages are essential to both individuals' and the nation's well-being. Rebecca Davis reveals how couples and counselors transformed the ideal of the perfect marriage as they debated sexuality, childcare, mobility, wage earning, and autonomy, exposing both the fissures and aspirations of American society. From the economic dislocations of the Great Depression to more recent debates over government-funded "Healthy Marriage" programs, counselors have responded to the shifting needs and goals of American couples. Tensions among personal fulfillment, career aims, religious identity, and socioeconomic status have coursed through the history of marriage and explain why the stakes in the institution are so fraught for the couples involved and for the communities to which they belong. Americans care deeply about marriages-their own and other people's-because they have made enormous investments of time, money, and emotion to improve their own relationships and because they believe that their personal decisions about whom to marry or whether to divorce extend far beyond themselves. 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