The family is a powerful and time-honoured institution in both contemporary and historical societies, but it isn't without its issues. Let's explore the development and impact of the modern nuclear family and how we can create and cast a more expansive web of kinship.

The list of artists used is in the outro.

Introduction - 0:00
Part I: Cooperation & Domination - 4:30
It Takes A Village - 4:38
The Origins of Patriarchy - 9:06
Part II: The Rise & Fall of the Nuclear Family - 14:25
The Rise of the Nuclear Family - 15:56
The Fall of the Nuclear Family - 23:39
Part III: Rethinking Family - 36:23
The Mbuti Example - 37:46
Radical Alternatives - 40:05
Outro - 46:11

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Sources & Resources:

Books:
The Anti-Social Family by Michèle Barrett
Race and Family: A Structural Approach by Roberta L. Coles
Patriarchy, Power, and Pay: The Transformation of American Families, 1800-2015 by Steven Ruggles
What Kinship Is-And Is Not by Marshall Sahlins
Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Liberating Life by Abdullah Ocalan
The Rise of Hierarchy by Peter Gelderloos
The Sociology of Housework by Ann Oakley

Articles:
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/how-t...
https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1...
https://www.cohousing.org/directory/t...
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/librar...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...
https://aeon.co/ideas/there-is-a-bett...
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...

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