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Summary Of Viviana Zelizer's A Dollar Of Her Own

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Viviana Zelizer was interested in how money affects personal and intimate relationships. “A Dollar of Her Own,” gives great details and explains brief how money brings conflicts in a relationship. The whole main point of the chapter is families (in 1870) declined their private financial from strangers, but husbands and wives often lie and deceive on another and conceal information from each other. Also when money enters the families it is assumed to be equitably distributed between family members, serving to maximize their collective welfare. In today’s society spouse couples do have conflicts when it comes to sharing their money with one another, like who is which going to pay this and that. They also might lie to each other by taking their

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