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Jessica Weiss

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
Awards
  • Sierra Book Prize
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