The Age of the Bachelor : Creating an American Subculture /

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In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century fa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chudacoff, Howard P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Bachelors > United States.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
African Americans.
Chicago, Illinois.
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Forum magazine.
Germans.
Goffman, Erving.
Groves, Ernest.
Holland, Hilda.
Hustler.
Illinois.
Irish.
Italians.
Jessel, George.
Jews.
Kansas City, Missouri.
Killrain, Jake.
Kingsdale, Jon.
Lithuanians.
Maryland.
Massachusetts.
New Haven, Connecticut.
New York World.
Oliver, Charles.
Progressive era.
amusement parks.
apprenticeship.
baby boom.
ballparks.
barbershops.
blue-plate special.
boarders.
breach of promise suits.
cabarets.
clubs and associations.
competition.
dance halls.
demographic theory.
deviance.
dime museums.
eating arrangements.
family law.
family.
fire companies.
frontier.
gymnasiums.
laundries.
marriage age.
middle class.
music.
occupation.
physical culture.
physicians.
pool halls.
residential patterns.
saloons and taverns.
seduction suits.
sporting culture.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION The Age of the Bachelor
  • CHAPTER ONE Bachelorhood in Early American History
  • CHAPTER TWO Why So Many Bachelors?
  • CHAPTER THREE The Domestic Lives of Bachelors
  • CHAPTER FOUR Institutional Life
  • CHAPTER FIVE Associations: Formal and Interpersonal
  • CHAPTER SIX The Popular Culture of Bachelorhood
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Bachelor Subculture and Male Culture
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Decline and Resurgence of Bachelorhood, 1930-1995
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index

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