Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

Suzanne Kahn

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Divorce, American Style

Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

Suzanne Kahn

In the series Politics and Culture in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297881

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About this book

Divorce, American Style contests the frequent claim that marriage has become a more flexible legal status over time. Enduring ideas about marriage and the family continue to have a powerful effect on the structure of a wide range of social programs in the United States.

Author / Editor information

Suzanne Kahn is Director of the Great Democracy Initiative and the Education, Jobs, and Worker Power Program at the Roosevelt Institute.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Divorce, 1970s Style Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. THE DIVORCE REVOLUTION
Chapter 1. From Alimony Drones to Breeding Cows: Women and the Divorce Law Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. From the Altar to the Grave: The Beginnings of the Feminist Divorce Reform Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
PART II. A GALAXY OF LAWS
Chapter 3. Partners or Parasites? Class, Race, and Credit Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 4. The Privileges of Marriage: Divorced Women and Selective Entitlements to Health Care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 5. Marriage as Work, Marriage as Partnership: Divorced Women’s Fight for Social Security Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 6. “How You Lose Money by Being a Woman”: Divorce in an Age of Proliferating Retirement Savings Options Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 7. An Expensive Endurance Test: Compromising Toward Success in the 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
PART III. STABLE DIVORCE RATES AND UNSTABLE POLITICS
Chapter 8. “Responsibility, Equity; Not Cruelty”: Changing Venues for Feminist Divorce Reformers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 9. “Saving the Next Generation”: The Changing Politics of Divorce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Conclusion. No- Fault Divorce in a Morality- Based Welfare System Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illus.
Keywords: American History; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; American Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: May 28, 2021
ISBN: 9780812297881