To Have and to Hold
Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change
307 pages, 11 halftones 6 x 9
©
2000
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226886718
Published April 2000
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making the Most of Marriage: Youthful Marriage and Gender Roles in the 1950s 2. To Row Your Own Boat: The Impact and Meaning of Employment for the Mothers of the Baby Boom 3. Making Room for Fathers: Fatherhood and Family Life 4. The Quest for Togetherness: Companionship, Childrearing, and Marriage 5. You Can't Really Believe the Magazines: Prescription and Reality in the Middle-Class Bedroom 6. This Is the Time to Fly: Divorce and the Generation That Gave Birth to the Baby Boom 7. Treated like a Lady: Feminism and the Family Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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