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"The American West has had the highest divorce rate in the world from the 1870's to the present. In examining why marriages dissolve so frequently in the West, this volume is the first to explore the topic in a systematic, scholarly manner. It looks at a wide range of courtship and marriage practices among Anglos, Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans. In studying men and women across cultural and ethnic lines, Riley argues that traditions often overlapped each other but never gave rise to widely accepted norms." "Riley devotes separate chapters to each phase in the life cycle of relationships - courting, the fusing and rending factors influencing marriage, the difficulties of intermarrying, and the dissolving of unions through separation, desertion, and divorce. She finds that family conflict occurred across cultures throughout the West when traditions clashed and people were unwilling or unable to blend beliefs or practices."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Although Riley's title emphasizes both building and breaking families, she is fundamentally concerned with why the American West has "the highest divorce rate in the world." In her discussion of women's roles in these processes, Riley's multicultural approach includes Anglo, African American, Asian, Spanish, and Native American heritages. She draws on a wide range of sources to consider courtship, the rituals of marrying and intermarrying, the frequency of separation and divorce. Given the publication's relative brevity, the writer can make only brief, tantalizing references to her broad information base. For those who study and teach about the American West, this volume is especially useful because it is more than a narrative of Anglo expansion. In the classroom it would be a valuable complement to Peoples of Color in the American West, ed. by Sucheng Chan (1994). As Riley seeks to answer her original questions, she adds to the reasons previously put forward by historians and sociologists, arguing that "lenient western attitudes toward divorce" and "the growth of economic and other opportunities for women" were the unique environmental factors contributing to the world's highest divorce rate. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty. J. H. O'Donnell III Marietta College
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Illustrations | p. ix |
1 Courting And Committing | p. 7 |
2 Marrying: for Better or Worse? | p. 43 |
3 Intermarrying: Why So Difficult? | p. 73 |
4 Separating Deserting, Divorcing | p. 113 |
Index | p. 197 |