Women without Husbands: Exploration of the Margins of Marriage (Women in Society S.)

by JoanChandler (Author)

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  1991

  $11.64

  Increasing numbers of women live outside marriage or in marriages in which partners live largely separate lives. This book looks at the lives of such women, their sources of social and economic support as well as how they manage and organize their household routines. It explores the implications of their of their marginality to marriage for their domestic power, their familial relationships and their independent identity.