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The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap / Stephanie Coontz.

by Coontz, Stephanie.

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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group, [2016]

306.85097 C775w

Families -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Social conditions.

9780465098835 (pbk.)

Revised and updated edition, 2016 edition.

xliv, 531 pages ; 21 cm

First published in 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historian Stephanie Coontz provides a myth-shattering examination of 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, looking at what has and has not changed since the original publication in 1992, and exploring how the clash between growing gender equality and growing economic inequality is reshaping family life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. A potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.

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