SOCC29H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Liberal Feminism, Body Politic, G1 Phase
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The problem: the family and critical arab family studies. Women had to be freed from the patriarchal family to benefit from the liberalist project. Important to query why arab family studies have not had more of an impact on cross cultural and theoretical studies of family: little rigorous empirical research on arab families exist. Us family: factors associated with this gap. Family is an idea and concept that is relatively recent. David m. schneider (1984) argued, pre-state societies did not specifically identify family as a unit, nor did they equate family with women and children arose and became valued in other societies. Why and how such boundaries (social, political, economic, public: controlling power of boundaries and controlling power of the states. Boundaries between the state, civil society and kinship were. Both legal and cultural assumptions that boundaries are good have. Creation of boundaries in western states was rooted in a political.
