Judith Stacey Quotes

• The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Mean, Land

  Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr

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• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Feminist, Prejudice

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