Not Just Roommates
Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Chapter Two: Night Falls in Miami Beach
Chapter Three: Welfare Rights
Chapter Four: Coed Facing Expulsion, 1968
Chapter Five: From Sheboygan to Madison
Chapter Six: Alternative Lifestyle
Chapter Seven: Palimony
Chapter Eight: Mothers on Trial
Chapter Nine: Get Married or Move Out
Chapter Ten: Domestic Partnerships
Chapter Eleven: Epilogue
Notes
Index
“Not Just Roommates transcends conventional accounts of the dramatic upsurge in cohabitation, demonstrating that it occurred in spite of—and not because of—changes in law and social policy. Pleck deftly chronicles the sociocultural and legal history of ‘living together,’ showing us how class and race are vital to the story and effectively arguing that cohabitors remain second-class citizens in a country that privileges marriage. This is an important scholarly contribution and a book that will transform how readers think about cohabitation and the changing American family.”
History: American History
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Sociology: Sociology--Marriage and Family
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