How Long to Read The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation

How Long Does it Take to Read The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 39 minutes to read The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation by Alison Lefkovitz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation examines legal, political, and cultural challenges to marriage during the years when coverture was unmade, an era marked by the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and the Report from the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1963 and the final defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982. Unmaking coverture vastly curtailed a legal regime founded on the family wage and transformed gender codes in both the private and public spheres. The dissertation argues that the legal revolution that eliminated the gendered roles of husband and wife emerged from struggles waged over the terms of marriage and divorce at the levels of both theory and practice. It reveals how feminists, men's rights activists, gay liberationists, welfare rights activists, and counterculture warriors assailed marriage as an institution that enforced not only gender inequality but also a repressive and outmoded sexual morality. These groups' challenges never cohered into a unified movement, but instead at times made strange bedfellows of critics who aimed to nullify a traditional regime rooted in sex difference. Ultimately, in response to challenges aimed at marriage, state legislators dismantled a wife's economic dependence on her husband and his right to his wife's household and reproductive labor. Notably, the destruction of coverture gave legal sanction to the foundering of the family wage, and homemaker-breadwinner model, as an economic and cultural ideal.

How long is The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation?

The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation by Alison Lefkovitz is 334 pages long, and a total of 84,836 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 43 minutes to read The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation aloud.

What Reading Level is The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation?

The Problem of Marriage in the Era of Women's Liberation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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