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The Social Origins of Private Life - A History of American Families, 1600-1900 (Paperback)
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The Social Origins of Private Life - A History of American Families, 1600-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Haymarket
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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 family form,
Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family
arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups
to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the
1890s.
Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as
well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the
seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly
original account of the shifting structure and function of American
families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the
early hegemony of middle-class privacy and affective individualism,
pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors
among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and
arguing that even middle-class families went through several
transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure.
The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal
relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced
household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex
series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as
from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family
systems. A clear conception of American capitalism's combined and
uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand
the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid
and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to
become the standard history of its subject.
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