Suzanne Kahn

Divorce, American Style

Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252903
• ISBN-10: 081225290X
• Artikelnr.: 60324168

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction. Divorce, 1970s Style
Part I. The Divorce Revolution
Chapter 1. From Alimony Drones to Breeding Cows: Women and the Divorce Law
Revolution
Chapter 2. From the Altar to the Grave: The Beginnings of the Feminist
Divorce Reform Movement
Part II. A Galaxy of Laws
Chapter 3. Partners or Parasites? Class, Race, and Credit Rights
Chapter 4. The Privileges of Marriage: Divorced Women and Selective
Entitlements to HealthCare
Chapter 5. Marriage as Work, Marriage as Partnership: Divorced Women's
Fight for Social Security
Chapter 6. "How You Lose Money by Being a Woman": Divorce in an Age of
Proliferating Retirement Savings Options
Chapter 7. An Expensive Endurance Test: Compromising Toward Success in the
1980s
Part III. Stable Divorce Rates and Unstable Politics
Chapter 8. "Responsibility, Equity; Not Cruelty": Changing Venues for
Feminist Divorce Reformers
Chapter 9. "Saving the Next Generation": The Changing Politics of Divorce
Conclusion. No-Fault Divorce in a Morality-Based Welfare System
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments