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By the end of World Conflict I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had made a deep-seated stress about marriage. This dread drove middle-class lovers to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to bolster their romantic relationships. In Making Matrimony Work, historian Kristin Celello provides an insightful and wide-ranging profile of marriage and divorce in America in the 20th century, focusing on the introduction of the idea of marriage as "work." Throughout, Celello illuminates the conversation of marriage and divorce on the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of People in the usa' collective awareness.
