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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1970s American Culture -- Introduction: The Intellectual Context -- Chapter 1 Fiction and Poetry -- Chapter 2 Television and Drama -- Chapter 3 Film and Visual Culture -- Chapter 4 Popular Music and Style -- Chapter 5 Public Space and Spectacle -- Conclusion: Rethinking the 1970s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Beginning the Conversations -- Chapter 2: The Conversation Within -- Chapter 3: Marital Conversations -- Chapter 4: The Voice of the Caregiver: Adult Children and Others -- Chapter 5: Conversations About Finances -- Chapter 6: Where to Live -- Chapter 7: Conversations About Health -- Chapter 8: Left Behind -- Chapter 9: A Legacy of Family Conversations -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Additional Resources -- About the Authors -- Exhibits

Introduction -- The US is way behind the rest of the world -- Parental leave is good -- Too much parental leave is not good -- Fathers as partners, not helpers -- The uk is not a good model -- Sweden is great but not perfect -- Conclusion: the six month solution.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Origins of the Colonial System -- 2 Expansion and Contraction -- 3 Two Turning Points -- 4 The Birth Pangs of Nationalism -- 5 Nationhood Begins, and Almost Ends -- 6 Federalism Suborned -- 7 Completing the Journey West -- 8 Nations Reborn -- 9 The Vagaries of National Political Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

"Half fable, half manifesto, this brilliant new take on the ancient concept of cash lays bare its unparalleled capacity to empower, enchant, and control us. Frederick Kaufman tackles the complex history of money, beginning with the earliest myths and wrapping up with Wall Street's byzantine present-day doings. Along the way, he exposes a set of allegorical plots, stock characters, and stereotypical metaphors that have long been linked with money and commercial culture, from Melanesian trading rituals to the dogma of Medieval churchmen faced with global commerce, the rationales of Mercantilism and colonial expansion, and the U.S. dollar's 1971 unpinning from gold. The Money Plot offers a tool to see through the haze of modern banking and finance, demonstrating that the standard reasons given for economic inequality-the Neoliberal gospel of market forces-are, like dollars, euros, and yuan, contingent upon structures people have designed. It shines a light on the one percent's efforts to contain a money culture that benefits them within boundaries they themselves are increasingly setting. And Kaufman warns that if we cannot recognize what is going on, we run the risk of becoming pawns and shells ourselves, of becoming other people's money."

"In the vein of Tim Wise's White Like Me and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men need to actively fight for gender equality. As the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort in the world of men seeking to end violence against women, Michael Kaufman is an authority on the subject of gender equality. His new book explores how a culture based in toxic masculinity hurts both women and men (and their children), how men can become better allies in smashing the patriarchy, and how real gender equality creates advancements in both the workplace and the global economy"--