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📢 in : 'Breaking : Five in Search of - Balance at the Turn of the ' by Patricia Auspos.

This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two , three – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century.

In all five , both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married were not supposed to have careers and women were not supposed to marry.

Patricia Auspos examines what we can learn from the relationships of the Palmers, the Youngs, the Parsons, the Webbs, and the Mitchells, exploring the implications of their experiences for our understanding of the of and of .

Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318

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