The Anti-Social Family (Radical Thinkers)

by Michele Barrett

Paperback, 2015

Status

Checked out

Publication

Verso (2015), Edition: 2 Reissue, Paperback, 176 pages

Description

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.

Physical description

176 p.; 5.09 inches

ISBN

1781687595 / 9781781687598

Local notes

feminisms

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