Overviews:
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: BasicBooks, c1992. HQ 535 .C643 1992 [On Reserve]
Mintz, Steven and Kellogg, Susan. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: Free Press, 1988. HQ535 .M46 1988 [On Reserve]
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families. New York: Basic Books, 1997. HQ535 .C644 1997
Courtship: Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988. GT2650 .B35 1988
Divorce:
Riley, Glenda. Divorce: An American Tradition. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. HQ834 .R55 1997
Sexuality:
D'Emilio, John and Freedman, Estelle B. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Also 2nd edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. HQ18 .U5 D45 1989, 1997
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA. New York: Crowell, 1991. HQ 75.6 .U5 F33 1991
Youth:
Modell, John. Into One's Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. HQ796 .M5718 1989
Family Violence:
Pleck, Elizabeth. Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Women's Work:
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1982. HD6095 .K449
African-American Families:
Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. E 185.86 .G77 1976
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985. also 2nd edition (?), New York: Vintage Books, 1995. HD 6057.5 .U5 J66 1985, 1995
Bonn, Thomas L. Heavy traffic & high culture : New American Library as literary gatekeeper in the paperback revolution. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989. Z473.N39 B66 1989
Cohn, Jan. Romance and the erotics of property. Durham : Duke University Press, 1988. PS 374 .L6 C6 1988
Darby, William. Necessary American fictions : popular literature of the 1950s. Bowling Green, Oh. : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1987. PS 374 .P63 D37 1987
Fiedler, Leslie A. The inadvertent epic : from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980. PS 371 .F54 1980
Fiedler, Leslie A. What was literature? : class culture and mass society. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982. PS 55 .F5
Gender, language, and myth : essays on popular narrative. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1992. PN 56 .P55 G45 1992
Haut, Woody, Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War. London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995. PS374 .D4 H38 1995
Hawkins, Harriett. Classics and trash : traditions and taboos in high literature and popular modern genres. London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. PN81 .H39 1990b
Miner, Madonne M. Insatiable appetites : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984. PS 374 .W6 M5 1984
Modleski, Tania, Loving with a vengeance: mass-produced fantasies for women. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982. PR 830 .W6 M6 1982
Mott, Frank Luther. Golden multitudes; the story of best sellers in the United States. New York : Macmillan, 1947. Z1033.B3 M6 1947.
Political mythology and popular fiction. Ed. Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman. New York : Greenwood Press, c1988. PS 374 .P6 P65 1988
The Politics of everyday fear. Brian Massumi, editor. Minneapolis : University of Minneapolis Press, c1993. PN 56 .F39 P65 1993
Radway, Janice A., Reading the romance: women, patriarchy, and popular literature. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984. Z1039.W65 R32 1984
Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. (On Order)
Roberts, Thomas J. An aesthetics of junk fiction. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1990.
PN 3503 .R59 1990
Sutherland, John Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
PR 881 .S9
Wagner-Martin, Linda. The mid-century American novel, 1935-1965. New York : Twayne ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997. PS379 .W266 1997
Whiteside, Thomas, The blockbuster complex: conglomerates, show business, and book publishing. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1981. Z471 .W47