Until choice do us part : marriage reform in the Progressive era by Eby, Clare Virginia, author instant download

Until choice do us part : marriage reform in the Progressive era by Eby, Clare Virginia, author instant download

1 online resource (xxiii, 237 pages) :, For centuries, people have been thinking and writing-and fiercely debating-about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a tool for social change. In Until Choice Do Us Part, Clare Virginia Eby offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the turn into the twentieth century. She begins with reformers like sexologist Havelock Ellis, anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, and feminist Charlott, Includes bibliographical references and index, A telescoped history of marriage and the Progressive Era debate -- The architects of the Progressive marital ideal -- Sex, lies, and media : Upton and Meta Fuller Sinclair's marital experiment -- Theodore Dreiser on monogamy, varietism, and \"this matter of marriage now\" -- Organic marriage in the life writings of Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood, Print version record