"Degler, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning social historian, has written an epochal book about the evolution of the role of women and the family in the United States."--
American Journal of Psychiatry"The most important comprehensive study in the field of social history of American women and the family to be published."--
American Historical Review"A pleasure....I predict that it will take its place among that small body of history we call 'indispensable.'"--Peter Gay, Yale University
"Degler's achievement is considerable.
At Odds is lucidly written and unflaggingly persuasive."--
Psychology Today"The most perceptive, the most thoughtful, the most balanced and the most readable work that has ever been written on the evolution of the American family."--Lawrence Stone,
The New York Times Book Review"A well-written synthesis with an interesting thesis."--Nancy Page Fernandez, University of California, Irvine
