The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Coontz, Stephanie
The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Coontz, Stephanie

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit Current debates about the future of...
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Author: Stephanie Coontz
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The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Coontz, Stephanie

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900

$72.35
The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Coontz, Stephanie

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900

$72.35
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit

Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s.

Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly original account of the shifting structure and function of American families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the early hegemony of middle-class privacy and "affective individualism," pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and arguing that even middle-class families went through several transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure.

The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family systems. A clear conception of American capitalism's combined and uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to become the standard history of its subject.

Author: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Verso
Published: 11/17/1988
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780860919070

About the Author
Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College, Washington. She is the author (with Peta Henderson) of the highly praised Women's Work, Men's Property: the Origins of Gender and Class.
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