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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This book, which arose from the demands of Coontz's family history course at Evergreen State College, continues the project Coontz ably began in four previous monographs (most recently, The Way We Really Are, LJ 4/1/97). The 29 chapters have been multifariously culled, many excerpted from books, with the aim of showing varieties of family life when factors of race, class, gender, locale, and different historical periods are considered independently. There are, for instance, chapters about African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Filipinas, Vietnamese, Chinese, immigrants, lesbians, motherhood, the poor, teenage mothers, and class consciousness in various times and places. There are no articles about middle- or upper-class families or those of northern European origin. Some of the authors are well known (e.g., W.J. Wilson, Thomas J. Sugrue), while others are newcomers. With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.?Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York
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With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.
–Library Journal, Feb 1999
With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.
–Library Journal, 2/99
At last, a book that replaces unrealistic idealization of 'The Family' with the many faces of real families in the real world! Accessibly written and full of important data, this is the best single-volume guide I know to the way we live now.
–Katha Pollitt
An extraordinary, wide-ranging collection of essays illuminating the variation in American families. It should move the current debates on family values to a higher plane.
–Donna L. Franklin, author of Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family
See all Editorial Reviews
This book, which arose from the demands of Coontz's family history course at Evergreen State College, continues the project Coontz ably began in four previous monographs (most recently, The Way We Really Are, LJ 4/1/97). The 29 chapters have been multifariously culled, many excerpted from books, with the aim of showing varieties of family life when factors of race, class, gender, locale, and different historical periods are considered independently. There are, for instance, chapters about African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Filipinas, Vietnamese, Chinese, immigrants, lesbians, motherhood, the poor, teenage mothers, and class consciousness in various times and places. There are no articles about middle- or upper-class families or those of northern European origin. Some of the authors are well known (e.g., W.J. Wilson, Thomas J. Sugrue), while others are newcomers. With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.?Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.
–Library Journal, Feb 1999
With nothing quite like it in its breadth of treatment, this is an excellent resource for college students or the engaged reader looking for a scholarly introduction.
–Library Journal, 2/99
At last, a book that replaces unrealistic idealization of 'The Family' with the many faces of real families in the real world! Accessibly written and full of important data, this is the best single-volume guide I know to the way we live now.
–Katha Pollitt
An extraordinary, wide-ranging collection of essays illuminating the variation in American families. It should move the current debates on family values to a higher plane.
–Donna L. Franklin, author of Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family
See all Editorial Reviews
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