"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 736952-n
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage 0.91. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780684863856
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780684863856
Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. 0.91. Seller Inventory # 0684863855-2-1
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.91. Seller Inventory # 353-0684863855-new
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780684863856
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 objects; that the nuclear family is not a 20th-century invention; and that romantic love never existed before the troubador poets glorified adultery. Divorce, he contends, is no great novelty either, he shows that in many times and places it has been almost as easy to obtain as it is today.Far from diminishing the general desire and respect for family life, Mount contends that the provision for divorce has been popularly regarded as an integral part of any sensible system of family law. This study should jolt the reader into a re-assessment of one of the most familiar and ancient institutions, and encourage greater consideration for policies today that support the family. A "brilliantly written and convincingly researched argument that marriage and the family, far from being the handmaidens of oppression by a ruling class, are in fact the chief obstacles to the exercise of any authority, whether political or religious, temporal or spiritual" (Auberon Waugh, "The Daily Mail"). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780684863856
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # L0-9780684863856
Book Description Condition: New. Special order direct from the distributor. Seller Inventory # ING9780684863856
Book Description Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book. Seller Inventory # ria9780684863856_lsuk