The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage Mount Ferdinand
British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family--including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.In…
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British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family--including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of powerful revolutionary movements, the leaders of which, whether they be political ideologues, theologians, feudal lords, or feminist writers, have done their utmost to render the family a subordinate instrument of their purpose but that, in spite of it all, the family endures. Mount maintains that many widely held contemporary beliefs about the family are based on a willful misreading of the evidence: among the myths are that arranged marriages were the norm until this century; that child care is a modern innovation; that in earlier societies children were treated as expendable
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