{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-sophie-lewis","title":"Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Sophie Lewis","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003eWhat if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003eEven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003eAbolish the Family 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Verso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e128 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e130 x 200 mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 9781839767197\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43751786053846,"sku":"ATFSL01","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/9781839767197-d75042837b5e237d642ed38bd333fbec.jpg?v=1666882210","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/fr\/products\/abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-sophie-lewis","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}