{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-9781839767197","title":"Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, incisive polemic, leading feminist critic Sophie Lewis makes the case for family abolition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e Abolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. This exhilarating essay looks at historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, and insists: only by thinking beyond the family can we begin to imagine what might come after.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839767197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Sophie Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325246378165,"sku":"9781839767197","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6931d3fc-e8c9-46a2-b7ca-345ffcb8dc19.jpg?v=1660018184","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-9781839767197","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}