To Have and to Hold Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change

Name: To Have and to Hold Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change
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ISBN: 9780226886718

ISBN-10: 0226886719

ISBN-13: 9780226886718

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jessica Weiss

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Middle-class family life in the 1950s brings to mind images of either smugly satisfied or miserably repressed nuclear families with breadwinning husbands, children, and housewives, much like the families depicted in Ozzie and Harriet and Father Knows Best. Jessica Weiss delves beneath these mythic images and paints a far more complex picture that reveals strong continuities between the baby boomers and their parents. Drawing on interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s, Weiss creates a dynamic portrait of family and social change in the postwar era. She pairs these firsthand accounts with a deft analysis of movies, television shows, magazines, and advice books from each…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 307
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Making the Most of Marriage: Youthful Marriage and Gender Roles in the 1950s



To Row Your Own Boat: The Impact and Meaning of Employment for the Mothers of the Baby Boom



Making Room for Fathers: Fatherhood and Family Life



The Quest for Togetherness: Companionship, Childrearing, and Marriage



You Can't Really Believe the Magazines: Prescription and Reality in the Middle-Class Bedroom



This Is the Time to Fly: Divorce and the Generation That Gave Birth to the Baby Boom



Treated like a Lady: Feminism and the Family


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index