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Until Choice Do Us Part (Paperback)
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For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely
debating - about the meaning of marriage. Today, politicians speak
often of "defending" or "protecting" this institution, but 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 start of the twentieth century. Beginning
with reformers like sexologist Havelock Ellis and anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons-who argued that spouses should be "class
equals" joined by private affection, not public sanction - Eby
guides us through the stories of three literary couples - Upton and
Meta Fuller Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White Dreiser, and Neith
Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood - who sought to reform marriage in their
lives and in their writings, with mixed results. With this focus on
the intimate side of married life, Eby gives readers a view into a
historical moment that changed the nature of American marriage-and
which continues to shape marital norms today.
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