Stephanie Coontz Bücher
Stephanie Coontz ist eine Historikerin und Expertin für Familienwissenschaften, die an The Evergreen State College lehrt. Sie ist außerdem Direktorin für Forschung und öffentliche Bildung beim Council on Contemporary Families. Ihre Schriften untersuchen die Entwicklung von Familienstrukturen und gesellschaftlichen Normen. Durch ihre Forschungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit setzt sie sich für ein tieferes Verständnis der Dynamik des Familienlebens im Laufe der Geschichte und in der Gegenwart ein.
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
- 576 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family 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 examines 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, exploring how the clash between growing gender equality and rising economic inequality is reshaping family life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. More relevant than ever, The Way We Never Were is a potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.