The Anti-Social Family

Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies to show how they reinforce conditions of inequality. This classic work explores the personal and social needs that the family promises to meet but more often denies, and proposes moral and political practices for more egalitarian caring alternatives.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/27/2015
ISBN: 9781781687598
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d