SOSC 1185 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dua, Nuclear Family, Wage Labour
3 Dec 2017
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Initial investigation of social origins of the nuclear family focused on patriarchy and capitalism ignored racism as being a contributor: marxists feminists argued origins of nuclear family were located in the social relations of capitalism. The state has spent considerable amount of effort to target existing familial practices in these communities as problematic. Towards a trinity integrating race, patriarchy and capitalism: theorizing the. It was the duty of women to breed and raise healthy members of the race. It was the responsibilities of citizens to channel their sexuality toward race betterment: only white women could produce a white race, the presence of people of colour in white settler colonies made interracial sexuality a possibility. In settler societies the nuclear family is a site in which a racialized nation is produced and a site in which a racist imperial order was formed.
