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Marriage In An Age Of Possibility: Joseph Epstein's Divorced In America, William I. Fine
Marriage In An Age Of Possibility: Joseph Epstein's Divorced In America, William I. Fine
IUSTITIA
Ever since the William Loud family first exhibited their marital difficulties on the Public Broadcasting Service, there has been a new direction in the popular literature on American divorce. In the past, the study of marital breakdown relied heavily on a foundation of case studies and empirical data. As society became more complex and variable, permutations from the basic theories became inextricably confused. Often the validity of a research technique would become a greater point of controversy than the results achieved. The product was a contradictory and prematurely dated body of knowledge in which no conclusive evidence could be assembled …
Stranger In Our Midst: The Working Class Woman, Yvonne Van Der Klip Stam
Stranger In Our Midst: The Working Class Woman, Yvonne Van Der Klip Stam
IUSTITIA
Although some of the concrete goals of women's liberation such as adequate available day care for children are important to women of both the blue collar and middle classes, the philosophy expressed by the movement is not calculated to attract the working class woman. Two incomes may be increasingly necessary to the middle class family, and an increasing number of middle class women are now supporting their children alone, but the movement speaks of freeing women fiom child care to pursue a career, an idea which does not speak to a blue collar woman concerned with getting a job to …