by Barbara Ehrenreich · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385176156
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«The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment» is Barbara Ehrenreich's essay published by Anchor in paperback, in English.
Ehrenreich analyzes how the ideal of the male breadwinner went into crisis and how many men began to shun the role of economic and emotional provider. The author connects this flight with the transformation of relations between men and women, and questions received ideas about love, marriage and commitment.
The essay was originally published in 1983, is written in English and has 224 pages in this edition.
For readers interested in sociology, gender studies and the history of masculinity.
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
