Marriage CritiqueBooks

Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.

Marilyn French's 1977 feminist fiction classic follows protagonist Mira's transformation from a submissive 1950s housewife to a 1960s feminist awakening, revealing patriarchal marriage's oppression of women and the possibility of women's liberation.