The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap [Revised and updated edition] 9780465098842, 9780465098835, 0465098835

Acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz provides a myth-shattering examination of two centuries of the American family, swe

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Table of contents :
Introduction to the 2016 edition --
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: family values 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 --
Epilogue to the 2016 edition: for better AND worse: family trends in the twenty-first century --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
Index.

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