{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-by-sophie-lewis-9781839767197","title":"Abolish the Family","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\n\u003cp\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth-century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhilarating essay looks at historic right-wing 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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362504753388,"sku":"9781839767197","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/571003482843.jpg?v=1772884791","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/abolish-the-family-by-sophie-lewis-9781839767197","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}