The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap
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The Way We Never Wereexamines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political and demographic changes, Coontz sheds new light on such contemporary concerns as parenting, privacy, love, the division of labor along gender lines, the black family, feminism and sexual practice.
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