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==Feminism==
==Feminism==
Some radical feminists have attacked and ridiculed the nuclear family claiming it creates sharply bounded roles for women that are too narrow and powerless. The line of attack caused a backlash, and is heard less often since the failure of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] in the 1980s.
Some radical feminists have attacked and ridiculed the nuclear family claiming it creates sharply bounded roles for women that are too narrow and powerless.
Feminist Alison Jaggar notes that "some feminists also criticized [nuclear] traditional family values because of their broader social implications. Radical feminists charged that the nuclear family promoted a norm of heterosexuality, regarded as indispensable for maintaining male dominance, whereas Marxist and socialist feminists argued that the nuclear family fulfilled a variety of vital economic functions for capitalist society."<ref>Alison M. Jaggar, ed. ''Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics.'' (1994) p 382. </ref>
The line of attack caused a backlash among women, and is heard less often since the failure of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] in the 1980s.
==See also==
==See also==
* [[Family]]
* [[Family]]