Inmaking marriage work historian kristin celello offers an insightful and wide ranging account of marriage and divorce in america in the twentieth century focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as work throughout celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of americans collective consciousness. Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth century united states kristin celello chapel hill university of north carolina press 2009 . In making marriage work kristin celello offers an insightful and wide ranging account of marriage and divorce in america in the twentieth century focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as work celello reveals how over the decades visiting marriage counselors reading advice columns in womens magazines and watching portrayals of marriage and divorce on television and in film effectively ingrained the notion of marriage as work into the minds of american women and men . Kristin celello making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth century united states chapel hill university of north carolina press 2009 75 160 165 7 davis more perfect unions 9 10