{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation","title":"Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\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","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52822069805353,"sku":"9781839767197","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7483\/9593\/files\/9781839767197.jpg?v=1773256308","url":"https:\/\/queerhavenbooks.com\/products\/abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation","provider":"Queer Haven Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}