The Hite Report On The Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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What does the family truly teach us — about love, authority, and our place in the world? In The Hite Report On the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy, renowned cultural analyst Shere Hite presents a sweeping, data-driven examination of the Western family unit, arguing that its deeply entrenched patriarchal structure systematically conditions children to accept hierarchy and submission as natural, inevitable facts of life. Drawing on thousands of personal testimonies gathered through her extensive survey methodology, Hite constructs a compelling portrait of how family dynamics shape psychological identity, gender roles, and the capacity for democratic thinking from the earliest years of childhood. Continuing the fearless investigative tradition established by her landmark Hite Reports on sexuality, this work extends her social critique into the very foundations of human society. Hite's prose is direct, evidence-rich, and unflinchingly challenging, dismantling romanticised notions of family life with the precision of a scholar and the urgency of an activist. Positioning private domestic experience as the crucible of broader political and social inequality, she forces the reader to ask a deeply unsettling question: if the first institution we ever know is built on unquestioned power, what does that mean for every institution that follows?
Author: Shere Hite
Format: Paperback
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does the family truly teach us — about love, authority, and our place in the world? In The Hite Report On the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy, renowned cultural analyst Shere Hite presents a sweeping, data-driven examination of the Western family unit, arguing that its deeply entrenched patriarchal structure systematically conditions children to accept hierarchy and submission as natural, inevitable facts of life. Drawing on thousands of personal testimonies gathered through her extensive survey methodology, Hite constructs a compelling portrait of how family dynamics shape psychological identity, gender roles, and the capacity for democratic thinking from the earliest years of childhood. Continuing the fearless investigative tradition established by her landmark Hite Reports on sexuality, this work extends her social critique into the very foundations of human society. Hite's prose is direct, evidence-rich, and unflinchingly challenging, dismantling romanticised notions of family life with the precision of a scholar and the urgency of an activist. Positioning private domestic experience as the crucible of broader political and social inequality, she forces the reader to ask a deeply unsettling question: if the first institution we ever know is built on unquestioned power, what does that mean for every institution that follows?