Open Book Publishers<p>📢<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OutNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OutNow</span></a> in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a>: 'Breaking <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Conventions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conventions</span></a>: Five <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Couples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Couples</span></a> in Search of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Marriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marriage</span></a>-<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Career" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Career</span></a> Balance at the Turn of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NineteenthCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NineteenthCentury</span></a>' by Patricia Auspos.</p><p>This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a>, three <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. </p><p>In all five <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/marriages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marriages</span></a>, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> were not supposed to have careers and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/career" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>career</span></a> women were not supposed to marry.</p><p>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 <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/genderequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderequality</span></a> and of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/professionalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professionalwork</span></a>.</p><p>Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at <a href="https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>