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The wife your husband needs : marriage counseling, religion, and sexual politics in the United States, 1930-1980
- Author
- Davis, Rebecca Louise.
- Title
- The wife your husband needs : marriage counseling, religion, and sexual politics in the United States, 1930-1980 / by Rebecca Louise Davis.
- Format
- Manuscript
- Published
- c2006.
- Description
- vii, 379 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2006.
- Notes
- Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2006. 22 cm.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-379).
- Contents
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- The creation of a workable science
- "Not marriage at all, but simple harlotry" : the companionate marriage controversy and the origins of modern marriage
- "The fundamental component of human nature" : sex, psychology, and dependency in marriage counseling's first decade
- "Something to fight for and come back to" : marriage counseling, class, and women's employment during World War II
- "Chances for happiness" : religion, mixed marriage, and personality testing in postwar marriage counseling
- "The dominant neurosis of men in our society" : psychoanalysis, gender, and the battle between the sexes, 1950-1965
- "The loneliness of lovers" : marriage, feminism, and the sexual revolution, 1965-1980
- The quest for marital happiness.
- Notes
- Paperback.
- Kinsey subjects
- Marriage counseling.