Proposing Prosperity? - Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America

Through interviews with couples and observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges assumptions about marriage and critically examines the effects of such classes. She ventures inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how they reflect broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and inequality.

Summary

Through interviews with couples and observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges assumptions about marriage and critically examines the effects of such classes. She ventures inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how they reflect broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Randles, Jennifer (Fresno State University) Randles, Jennifer M. Randles
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2016
• EAN: 9780231170307
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17030-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Poverty & unemployment, Social welfare & social services, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Sociology: family and relationships, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Poverty and precarity