MARRIAGE & THE FAMILY

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In what sense is the family a natural building block of all societies? Is marriage a privileged relationship marked by intimacy and sexual fidelity in most societies? Do men and women observe a similar division of duties in the household everywhere? This course looks at selected examples of these institutions in cultures that have been until recently unrelated to our own, and at the development of marriage and the family in Western society prior to the modern era, in order to answer these and other related questions.