The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy

A powerful & original analysis of the changing shape of private life, & an optimistic & forward-looking answer to the dangerous nuclear-family-only nostalgia for the 50s that pervades the ongoing national debate on family values. Hite is the first person to give theoretical legitimacy to all of the infinite ways that we live as families, whether as single parents, as same-sex parents, in traditional family groups, or alone. She challenges established views, arguing that the family is not collapsing but being democraticized. Her book will cause you to rethink your childhood, your relationships, & quite possibly your life.