{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-paperback","title":"Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia, teaching courses for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eFull Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family\u003c\/i\u003e, and her essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e. Sophie studied English, Politics, Environment and Geography at Oxford, the New School, and Manchester University, and is now an unpaid visiting scholar at the Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.72 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766350905632,"sku":"9781839767197","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/af534de6b86e4864a36402f6da332c16.webp?v=1780290920","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}