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Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

By Kay S. Hymowitz

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Hardcover:

9780465018420 | Basic Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $25.99

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9780465028368 | Basic Books, March 6, 2012, cover price $15.99

Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-marital Age

Product Description: A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate―and provisional―union of two adults...read more

By Kay S. Hymowitz

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9781566637534 | Ivan R Dee, November 30, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage.

Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post- Marital Age

Evaluates how large-scale changes within the traditional American family unit throughout the past generation have had consequences for women and children, citing higher rates of poverty and common misconceptions while focusing on the ways in which African-American families have been particularly disadvantaged.

By Kay S. Hymowitz

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9781566637091 | Ivan R Dee, December 15, 2006, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Evaluates how large-scale changes within the traditional American family unit throughout the past generation have had consequences for women and children, citing higher rates of poverty and common misconceptions while focusing on the ways in which African-American families have been particularly disadvantaged.

Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age

Product Description: Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament...read more

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9781566634953 | Ivan R Dee, July 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A social critic explores modern-day parenting, delving into the complexity and uncertainty that often accompanies bringing a child into the world in the postmodern era.

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9781566635981 | Ivan R Dee, July 30, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning.

Ready or Not: What Happens When We Treat Children As Small Adults

Product Description: Asking how we can raise morally responsible children while nurturing their individuality, Hymowitz critiques the radical individualism that seems to have subsumed concern for the common good, the narrow vocationalism of much education, a vulgar and sensationalized media and the insidious ways in which such natural childhood activities as play and exploration have been channeled toward enhanced cognition and academic achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kay S. Hymowitz

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9781893554207 | Encounter Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Asking how we can raise morally responsible children while nurturing their individuality, Hymowitz critiques the radical individualism that seems to have subsumed concern for the common good, the narrow vocationalism of much education, a vulgar and sensationalized media and the insidious ways in which such natural childhood activities as play and exploration have been channeled toward enhanced cognition and academic achievement.

Ready or Not: Why Treating Children As Small Adults Endangers Their Future--And Ours

A leading sociologists warns against treating children as adults and challenges child advocates, lawyers, and educators who have portrayed children as innately competent, rational, and autonomous, thus creating a dangerous myth around childhood. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Kay S. Hymowitz

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9780684836249 | Free Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Warns against treating children as adults and challenges child advocates, lawyers, and educators who have portrayed children as innately autonomous, thus creating a dangerous myth around childhood

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