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Marriage, a History
Just when the clamor over traditional marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, What tradition? In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage …
The Way We Never Were
Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual …
The Social Origins of Private Life
Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional …
American Families
In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arrangements have also multiplied, …
The Way We Really Are
Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's family,the demonizing of untraditional" family forms and …
Women's Work, Men's Property
"e;To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of …
Social Origins of Private Life
Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional …
Marriage, a History
Just when the clamor over "e;traditional"e; marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "e;What tradition?"e; In Marriage, a …
A Strange Stirring
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique . Women wrote to her by the hundreds to say that the book had transformed, …
Women's Work, Men's Property
"To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our …
Neither Villain Nor Victim
Female drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. These depictions typify the "pathology and …