{"product_id":"family-abolition-by-m-e-obrien-9780745343822","title":"Family Abolition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary \"beloved community\" for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!' \u003cstrong\u003eSophie Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labour. Can we imagine a different future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e, author M.E. O'Brien uncovers the history of struggles to create radical alternatives to the private family. O'Brien traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and in the slave plantations and settler frontier of North America, explaining the rise and fall of the housewife-based family form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom early Marxists to Black and queer insurrectionists to today's mass protest movements, O'Brien finds revolutionaries seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. \u003cem\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e takes us through the past and present of family politics into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organised in a free society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602959810796,"sku":"9780745343822","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745343822-family-abolition.jpg?v=1778050360","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/family-abolition-by-m-e-obrien-9780745343822","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}