Reinventing Marriage

"At age twenty-seven Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become one of the founding deans of the University of Chicago, she married the Harvard philosophy professor George Herbert Palmer in 1887. A full generation before most educated women began to dream of combining marriage and professional work, George and Alice together tried to create a new type of union that would make satisfying careers possible for both partners." "Drawing on more than a thousand letters written before and after their wedding, Lori Kenschaft traces the changing relationship between Alice and George, offering a multifaceted study of their decision to marry, the dynamics of their relationship, and their understanding of marriage. As their relationship matures, their life-shaping decisions reflect and reveal their thoughts and feelings about work, love, sex, equality, and the purposes of education."--Jacket.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Editions

1

Pages

296

ISBN

9780252030000

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