The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from CommitmentFrom the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history. "Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausible explanation...of loosening marriage bonds. According to Barbara Ehrenreich...it is men who started walking off, in search of freedom from their stifling role of breadwinner/success-machine. The shock—and exhilaration—of this book comes from the recognition that here is a woman who has dared to look beyond the everyday assumptions about love and commitment to examine which bonds between men and women can endure and which may last forever.”--Vogue |
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... things , social pressure or conscience , that send the men . -Emily Hahn , 1956 The fact that men marry in precisely the same numbers as women do conceals a basic inequality of motivation : namely , that in the sort of marriage we have ...
... things , social pressure or conscience , that send the men . -Emily Hahn , 1956 The fact that men marry in precisely the same numbers as women do conceals a basic inequality of motivation : namely , that in the sort of marriage we have ...
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American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment Barbara Ehrenreich. French club , things like that . . . . Finally there are senior girls . If they aren't going steady or engaged by November first , they feel the walls closing in . They ...
American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment Barbara Ehrenreich. French club , things like that . . . . Finally there are senior girls . If they aren't going steady or engaged by November first , they feel the walls closing in . They ...
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... things most of her suffragist contemporaries claimed to hold even dearer than the vote - the traditional middle - class marriage and family . Gilman described the economics of marriage in the language of biology , and the effect was ...
... things most of her suffragist contemporaries claimed to hold even dearer than the vote - the traditional middle - class marriage and family . Gilman described the economics of marriage in the language of biology , and the effect was ...
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... things , one a fact , the other an assumption . The fact is that men , on the average , earn more than women . The ... thing that salvages women's dig- nity is the fact that they " work " too , even when not employed outside the home ...
... things , one a fact , the other an assumption . The fact is that men , on the average , earn more than women . The ... thing that salvages women's dig- nity is the fact that they " work " too , even when not employed outside the home ...
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... thing is that men have for so long , and , on the whole , so reliably , adhered to what we might call the " breadwinner ethic . " This book is about the ideology that shaped the breadwinner ethic and how that ideology collapsed , as a ...
... thing is that men have for so long , and , on the whole , so reliably , adhered to what we might call the " breadwinner ethic . " This book is about the ideology that shaped the breadwinner ethic and how that ideology collapsed , as a ...
Contents
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EARLY REBELS The Gray Flannel | 29 |
PLAYBOY JOINS THE BATTLE | 42 |
REASONS OF THE HEART Cardiology | 68 |
FROM CONFORMITY TO GROWTH | 88 |
THE MALE REVOLT REDEEMED | 117 |
BACKLASH The Antifeminist Assault | 144 |
CONCLUSION For Women Surviving | 169 |
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The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment Barbara Ehrenreich Limited preview - 1987 |
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