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I’m trying to find books that discuss the invention of the nuclear family. Preferably ones that take a critical approach to it.

>> No.16966491

>>16966490
Any suggestions?

>> No.16966565

>>16966490
>the invention of the nuclear family

Would you say there was an invention of the extended family or perhaps of living in tribes? I mean the invention of the tribe, of course.

Social constructivism is absolutely something to consider in some aspects of society but to apply these theories to everything is like pouring ketchup on every kind of food: only retards do this.

>> No.16966625

there was really only one generation post war this applied to. it was an ideal of television, not an actuality. IME

>> No.16966630

>shetland
>orkney
>nordic
WE

>> No.16966675

>>16966490
all postmodernist feminist and all marxist feminist literature probably, but who cares, nobody takes them serious and nobody should

>> No.16967067

>>16966490
Christopher Lasch in most of his books, especially Haven in a Heartless World

>> No.16967835

>>16966675
If you think the nuclear family is based and trad, you're a retarded victim of modernity.

>> No.16967942

>>16966675
Why so salty?

>> No.16968039

>>16966490
There was no 'invention'

>> No.16968075

>>16966490
Engels

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>>16967835
A lot of our notions surrounding the nuclear family are recent, but the marxist critique of the nuclear family is also completely inaccurate and borders on scientific illiteracy. The nuclear family isn't purely a product of modernity, and to say otherwise is both Eurocentric and historically uninformed. Something like the nuclear family is present in every society throughout human history. No of course you have polygamy and polygyny in some culture, but even these cultures exhibit nuclear familial structures. Nobody in the field of prehistory, anthropology, or archaeology today would claim that the nuclear family is purely a 'social construct'. Only continental philosophers, sociologist, feminist scholars, etc. would say that.

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16968359

>>16968116
>hunter gatherers lived in communal families
>but then the modern town of Jericho ruined it all for us with their split into family units
VGH... VHAT COVLD HAVE BEEN

>> No.16968373

>>16968359
meant for
>>16967835

>> No.16968471

>>16966490
Levi-Strauss (obviously) and Girard might be helpful as well.

>> No.16968520

>>16967067
Second Christopher lasch. But don't expect the critique you want. If your looking to own the conservetards then maybe stick with Foucault and the rest of the well known radfem literature. If your interested in learning why we need to know why boundaries were set before taking them down, read lasch.

>> No.16968532

>>16966490
I think Sex at Dawn touches it.