Nostalgia for the imagined warm family gatherings of yesteryear has coloured our understanding of family celebrations. Elizabeth Pleck examines two centuries of changing family traditions and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans celebrate holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, and Passover, as ...
Two professors from the University of Illinois present their observations on the persistence of the lavish wedding, even despite the recent economic downturn in the US. The authors base their discussions of the historical, social, and psychological aspects of elaborate weddings on media accounts, interviews, and their own research, and draw ...
Elizabeth Pleck's "Domestic Tyranny" chronicles the rise and demise of legal, political, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. Based on in-depth research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, this book argues that the single most consistent barrier to reform against domestic ...
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