![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But feminist attacks on female subordination demanded that women’s inferior role be defended and justified, either as a continuation of a desirable tradition, or as the latest stage of an evolutionary sequence. Until about 1860, very few questioned that the family as they knew it was an inevitable, innate social institution based on the authority of a male family head. An especially obvious example of this occurs in postulates concerning the historical development of family structures. Since its origins social anthropology has been a battlefield for political argument. Background: Victorian Theories of the Origin of the Family ![]()
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