Strange Bedfellows by Alison Lefkovitz - 9781512828771

Strange BedfellowsMarriage in the Age of Women's Liberation\nAuthor(s): Alison Lefkovitz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512828771, 978-1512828771\nSynopsis\nThe impact of law and politics on efforts to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms\n In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she \""would like a wife,\"" offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well as wages from a job. Outside the pages of Ms., divorced men's rights activist Charles Metz opened his own manifesto on marriage reform with a triumphant recognition that \""noise is swelling from hundreds of thousands of divorced male victims.\"" In the 1960s and 70s, a broad array of Americans identified marriage as a prob.