Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage

When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy.

Stephen Edgell is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, UK.