According to historian Stephanie Coontz in her book, Marriage: A History, the change from __________ to __________ is what made marriages today more fragile than those of the past.

A. women working only in the home; women working primarily outside the home
B. marriage as an economic and political insitution; a voluntary love relationship
C. men's self-image as breadwinner; men's self-image as "player"
D. polygamy; monogamy


Answer: B

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