Like a Married Couple
Barkin, Matthew
PARTY OF THE FUTURE INTRODUCTION Party of the Future: Voices from the Millennial Generation II NICOLAUS MILLS In this second installment of "Party of the Future: Voices from the Millennial...
...They are as open to defying the latest belief as they are to defying past tradition...
...But what our writers show is that generalizations about living in the hookup age can be very thin unless they are measured against the details of personal experience...
...The first set of "Party of the Future" essays was about political engagement and public service...
...Indeed, they mark a change from the live-and-let-live thinking of the Baby Boomers and alternately from the idea that parents must always stay together "for the children...
...As these essays make evident, growing up in an age of uncertainties—political, economic, social—has created the need to chart highly individual paths, and in this spirit we welcome the opportunity to present seven unique millennial perspectives on contemporary relationships...
...These essays are more overtly personal, but they are still political...
...Since the 1960s began, America has used sex to mark off different periods of our history...
...We have had the age of the pill, the age of AIDS, and now the so-called age of the "hookup...
...Nicolaus Mills is professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and co-editor, with Michael Walzer, of Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq...
...PARTY OF THE FUTURE INTRODUCTION Party of the Future: Voices from the Millennial Generation II NICOLAUS MILLS In this second installment of "Party of the Future: Voices from the Millennial Generation," we have asked a new group of under-thirty authors to talk about relationships—everything from sex to family ties to ordinary friendship...
...Time and again, the writers in this series defy the pop-sociological diagnoses of their generation so popular among their elders...
...Their descriptions of the forging and breaking of familial bonds are no less nuanced...
...Our authors find themselves part of a social landscape shaped by earlier sexual eras, but at the same time they defy easy generational cliches when it comes to romance...
Vol. 58 • January 2011 • No. 1
