The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 9, 2011 - Social Science - 224 pages
From 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
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION Why Women Married
1
BREADWINNERS AND LOSERS Sanctions
14
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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Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic socialist, sociologist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books ncluding the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch.She lives in Virginia, USA.

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