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Title Inside the American couple : new thinking/new challenges / edited by Marilyn Yalom and Laura L. Carstensen
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages)
Contents Biblical models: from Adam and Eve to the bride of Christ / Marilyn Yalom -- Dearest friend: the marriage of Abigail and John Adams / Edith B. Gelles -- "The thing bartered": love economics and the Victorian couple / Kate Washington -- "Boston marriage" among lesbians: are we a couple if we're not having sex? / Esther D. Rothblum -- "You'll never walk alone": lesbian and gay weddings and the authenticity of the same-sex couple / Ellen Lewin -- The couple at home: education's contribution / Nel Noddings -- When one of us is ill: scenes from a partnership / Mary Felstiner -- Wives and husbands working together: law partners and marital partners / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Grounds for marriage: reflections and research on an institution in transition / Arlene Skolnick -- Divorce, American style / Deborah L. Rhode -- What's a wife worth? / Myra H. Strober -- Toward an understanding of Asian American interracial marriage and dating / Jeanne L. Tsai, Diane E. Przymus, and Jennifer L. Best -- Arranged marriages: what's love got to do with it? / Monisha Pasupathi -- Marriage in old age / Susan Turk Charles and Laura L. Carstensen
Summary One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at least once in their lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Couples -- United States
Interpersonal relations -- United States
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Couples
Interpersonal relations
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Yalom, Marilyn
Carstensen, Laura L
ISBN 9780520927315
0520927311
0585419752
9780585419756
0520219759
9780520219755
0520229576
9780520229570
1597346802
9781597346801