The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

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From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history. "Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausible explanation...of loosening marriage bonds. According to Barbara Ehrenreich...it is men who started walking off, in search of freedom from their stifling role of breadwinner/success-machine. The shock-and exhilaration-of this book comes from the recognition that here is a woman who has dared to look beyond the everyday assumptions about love and commitment to examine which bonds between men and women can endure and which may last forever."--Vogue

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An original and provocative view of recent sexual culture.The Nation

An original workthat often stands on its head much of the analysis of the relations between the sexes that has become the accepted wisdom of recent years.The New York Times

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Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic socialist, sociologist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books ncluding the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch.She lives in Virginia, USA.