Love in America: Gender and Self-Development

by Francesca M. Cancian

Book Overview

In the past twenty-five years, Americans have gained considerable freedom in their personal lives. Relationships are now more flexible, and self-development has become a primary goal for both men and women. Most scholars have criticized this trend to greater freedom, arguing that it undermines family bonds and promotes selfishness and extreme independence. Francesca Cancian is more optimistic. In this book she compares these newer images of close...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521396913
• ISBN13: 9780521396912
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"