The Way We Never Were - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way We Never Were write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2016-03-29. The Way We Never Were available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family 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 assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. The 1950s do not present a workable model of how to conduct our personal lives today, Coontz argues, and neither does any other era from our cultural past. This revised edition includes a new introduction and epilogue, exploring how the clash between growing gender equality and rising economic inequality is reshaping family life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. More relevant than ever, The Way We Never Were is a potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.
The Way We Really Are
The Way We Really Are - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way We Really Are write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2008-08-06. The Way We Really Are available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it’s not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses.The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapy—and much more help than listening to today’s political debates.
The Way We Never Were
The Way We Never Were - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way We Never Were write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2000. The Way We Never Were available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes bibliographical references and index
Marriage, a History
Marriage, a History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marriage, a History write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2006-02-28. Marriage, a History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.
A Strange Stirring
A Strange Stirring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Strange Stirring write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2011-01-04. A Strange Stirring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
