Inside the American couple [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking/new challenges
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| Autore: |
Yalom Marilyn
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| Titolo: |
Inside the American couple [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking/new challenges
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Couples-- United States |
| Interpersonal relations - United States | |
| Altri autori: |
CarstensenLaura L
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Biblical Models: From Adam and Eve to the Bride of Christ; Chapter 2: Dearest Friend: The Marriage of Abigail and John Adams; Chapter 3: ""The Thing Bartered"": Love, Economics, and the Victorian Couple; Chapter 4: ""Boston Marriage"" among Lesbians: Are We a Couple If We're Not Having Sex?; Chapter 5: ""You'll Never Walk Alone"": Lesbian and Gay Weddings and the Authenticity of the Same-Sex Couple; Chapter 6: The Couple at Home: Education's Contribution; Chapter 7: When One of Us Is Ill: Scenes from a Partnership |
| Chapter 8: Wives and Husbands Working Together: Law Partners and Marital PartnersChapter 9: Grounds for Marriage: Reflections and Research on an Institution in Transition; Chapter 10: Divorce, American Style; Chapter 11: What's a Wife Worth?; Chapter 12: Toward an Understanding of Asian American Interracial Marriage and Dating; Chapter 13: Arranged Marriages: What's Love Got to Do with It?; Chapter 14: Marriage in Old Age; Contributors; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inside the American Couple |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92731-1 |
| 1-59734-680-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454824103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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