MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aHQ535$b.C643 1992
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100 1 $aCoontz, Stephanie.
245 14 $aThe way we never were :$bAmerican families and the nostalgia trap /$cStephanie Coontz.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bBasicBooks,$cc1992.
300 $aviii, 391 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [377]-379) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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 : the family 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.
650 0 $aFamily$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aNostalgia.