Families and the American Dream
Stephanie Coontz
Tuesday, 09 Feb 1993 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Stephanie Coontz is author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. She is a scholar on family systems and teaches at Evergreen State College in Washington. her other publications include The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families and Women's Work, Men's Prosperity: On the Origins of Gender and Class.Part of the National Affairs Series
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