CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. CHAPTER 1 Making Sense of Divorce: Personal Meaning in a Social Context 1
5. CHAPTER 2 Mourning Different Dreams: Gender and the Companionate Marriage 21
6. CHAPTER 3 The Teller's Problem: Four Narrative Accounts of Divorce 74
7. CHAPTER 4 Personal Trauma in Women and Men: The Private Experience of Social Trouble 120
8. CHAPTER 5 Starting a New Life: The Positive Consequences of Divorce 161
9. CHAPTER 6 Divorce Is Here to Stay: What Can We Learn from It? 210
10. APPENDIX A Narrative about Methods 221
11. NOTES 231
12. INDEX 269