Description
| Product ID: | 9780141191119 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State |
| Authors: | Author: Friedrich Engels |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | History of ideas, History of ideas, Politics and government, Politics & government, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A critique of the Victorian nuclear family. It argues that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-04-29 |