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
Other editions
The Anti-Social Family (Radical Thinkers) by Michele Barrett (Paperback)
The Anti-Social Family (Radical Thinkers) by Michele Barrett (Paperback)
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