Backlash to the Future in the Role of the Wife
Book Reveals the Intricacies and Challenges of Successful Wifing
- Who’s hiding the heartbreak of the baby boomer wife?
- What is the real truth about egalitarian marriages?
- How is it that becoming a wife is still a woman’s ultimate aspiration?
- Why are women’s sexual relationships with their husbands not good enough?
Gender studies professor and women’s issues author Susan Shapiro Barash’s newest book, THE NEW WIFE: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE AMERICAN WIFE , takes an unprecedented look at marriage in America over the past five decades and reflects on its social implications for women.
“Whether a woman is married, divorced, widowed, or never married, the prospect of being a wife looms large,” Barash says. “Each decade in the evolution of the modern married woman has contributed to the profile of today’s 21st century wife.”
An eye-opening study of wives of all ages, THE NEW WIFE: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE AMERICAN WIFE reveals how deeply a woman’s identity is vested in her marriage. Marriage is still a powerful and alluring concept for women yet today, much like its siren call to their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers in decades past.