{"product_id":"divorce-american-style-9780812252903","title":"Divorce American Style","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fascinating, thorough, and highly readable study of divorce in the history of 20th Century U.S. feminism...\u003ci\u003eDivorce, American Style\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rigorously-documented narrative of a uniquely American feminism at a pivotal point in history. It provides important new leverage for understanding how both feminism and social welfare policy got where they are today by focusing on the key intersections between them, as drawn through the legislative and policy debates Kahn explores in correspondence, drafts, committee reports, feminist meeting minutes, news reports, statistical data, and politicians’ pronouncements.\" * Society for U.S. intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Divorce, 1970s Style\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I. The Divorce Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. From Alimony Drones to Breeding Cows: Women and the Divorce Law Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. From the Altar to the Grave: The Beginnings of the Feminist Divorce Reform Movement\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II. A Galaxy of Laws\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Partners or Parasites? Class, Race, and Credit Rights\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Privileges of Marriage: Divorced Women and Selective Entitlements to HealthCare\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Marriage as Work, Marriage as Partnership: Divorced Women's Fight for Social Security\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"How You Lose Money by Being a Woman\": Divorce in an Age of Proliferating Retirement Savings Options\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. An Expensive Endurance Test: Compromising Toward Success in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III. Stable Divorce Rates and Unstable Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"Responsibility, Equity; Not Cruelty\": Changing Venues for Feminist Divorce Reformers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. \"Saving the Next Generation\": The Changing Politics of Divorce\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. No-Fault Divorce in a Morality-Based Welfare System\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405745594711,"sku":"9780812252903","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252903.jpg?v=1730493465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divorce-american-style-9780812252903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}