The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap / Stephanie Coontz.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : BasicBooks, 2000Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Pbk. edition with new introductionDescription: viii, 391 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0465090974
- 9780465090976
- 306.850973
- HQ535 .C643 2000
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.850973 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A160237B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index.
The way we wish we were : defining the family crisis -- "Leave it to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet" : American families in the 1950s -- "My mother was a saint" : individualism, gender myths, and the problem of love -- We always stood on our own two feet : self-reliance and the American family -- Strong families, the foundation of a virtuous society : the family and civic responsibility -- A man's home is his castle : the family and outside intervention -- Bra-burners and family bashers : feminism, working women, consumerism, and the family -- "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Mary with a baby carriage" : marriage, sex, and reproduction -- Toxic parents, supermoms, and absent fathers : putting parenting in perspective -- Pregnant girls, wilding boys, crack babies, and the underclass : the myth of black family collapse -- The crisis reconsidered.
Looks at two centuries of American family life and shatters myths and misconceptions about the past.
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