The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
BasicBooks,
2000
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed with new introduction. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.