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14 produkter
For Better and Worse
The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage
Inbunden, 2026
336 kr
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A provocative, authoritative reckoning with the past and future of marriage, explaining why it’s become more rewarding as well as riskier Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest commitment …
Marriage, a History
How Love Conquered Marriage
Häftad, 2006
217 kr
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Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History , historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian …
American Families
A Multicultural Reader
Inbunden, 2008
3156 kr
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In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arrangements have also multiplied, with single-parent families, cohabiting couples with children, divorced couples with children, stepfamilies, and …
American Families
A Multicultural Reader
Häftad, 2008
952 kr
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In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arrangements have also multiplied, with single-parent families, cohabiting couples with children, divorced couples with children, stepfamilies, and …
Strange Stirring
The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Häftad, 2012
266 kr
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In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique . Women wrote to her by the hundreds to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were and what they were doing …
Way We Really Are
Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families
Häftad, 1998
290 kr
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Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's family,the demonizing of untraditional" family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it's not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s …
Way We Never Were
American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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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 …
Women's Work, Men's Property
The Origins of Gender and Class
Av Peta Henderson, Stephanie Coontz
Häftad, 1986
325 kr
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"To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and …
Social Origins of Private Life
A History of American Families, 1600-1900
Häftad, 1988
373 kr
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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 …
Marriage, a History
How Love Conquered Marriage
E-bok, 2006
189 kr
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Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History , historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian …
Women's Work, Men's Property
The Origins of Gender and Class
Av Peta Henderson, Stephanie Coontz
E-bok, 2016
174 kr
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"To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and …
Social Origins of Private Life
A History of American Families, 1600-1900
E-bok, 2016
175 kr
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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 …
Reaction and the Wave: Young Women, Young Men and the Far Right in Europe, 2019-2026
Red Mole Guides, #9
Av Javier Pineda, Tamara Knezevic m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
17 kr
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In the German election of February 2025, thirty-seven per cent of women aged eighteen to twenty-four voted for Die Linke. Among young men of the same age the strongest single party was the AfD. Britain in 2024 gave the same reading in a different alphabet. Young women are moving left, young men …
