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The Way We Never Were - American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Way We Never Were - American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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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 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. Now more relevant than ever, The
Way We Never Were continues to be a potent corrective to dangerous
nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.
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