Waubonsee Community College

To have and to hold, marriage, the baby boom, and social change, Jessica Weiss

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

To have and to hold

bibliography

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Jessica Weiss

"Middle-class family life in the 1950s brings to mind images of either smugly satisfied or miserably repressed nuclear families composed of breadwinning husbands, children, and housewives. Jessica Weiss delves beneath these mythic images and paints a far more complex picture that reveals strong continuities between the baby boomers and their parents. Combining interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s with a deft analysis of movies, television shows, magazines, and advice books from each decade, Weiss provides an unprecedented and intimate look at ordinary marriages in a time of sweeping cultural change. Book jacket."--Jacket

marriage, the baby boom, and social change