We 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.
Even 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.
Abolish 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.
4 有用 momo 2023-04-07 20:49:15 江苏
有点失望,大多是站在以夫妻为中心的家庭的角度讲abolition,我以为会多讲讲我们这种想要废除以亲子关系为核心的家庭的人。
2 有用 Jean-François 2022-11-05 02:11:17 美国
不得不怀疑amazon评论区是被某些组织盯上的舆论阵地。甚至有Anon这种id出没。出版当月就一水一星的ranting,如果不是有组织的话,只能说美国中产社会的保守和反智本色根深蒂固。
2 有用 把沼王作为方法 2023-03-31 23:50:05 美国
来自导师的安利 这才是激进女性主义该有的样子
1 有用 顾予美 2023-01-14 06:59:28 加拿大
I’m in general open to abolish the family but I don’t find author’s arguments in this book compelling. Yet Chapter 3 gives a great summary of the history of family abolitionism, which introduces me to... I’m in general open to abolish the family but I don’t find author’s arguments in this book compelling. Yet Chapter 3 gives a great summary of the history of family abolitionism, which introduces me to numerous great thinkers and their brilliant works (thus worths 4 stars). (展开)
0 有用 我爱我 2024-01-04 05:07:16 英国
不想写论文了,想好好看
0 有用 素谷 2024-03-25 12:37:16 上海
【γ】内容较浅。“building structures of dependency, need, and provision with no kinship dimension.”
0 有用 我爱我 2024-01-04 05:07:16 英国
不想写论文了,想好好看
3 有用 Marysonfly 2023-06-14 23:30:55 广东
So radical!! So cool!!虽然读着读着真的因为书里的目标跟现实的巨大落差失望到落泪。一直以来很关注异性恋核心家庭的瓦解,但更关键的是要让care work转变成公共责任。所以,你不生,我不生,一起倒逼郭嘉完善社会抚养体系,然后英特纳雄耐尔就一定要实现了(狗头
4 有用 momo 2023-04-07 20:49:15 江苏
有点失望,大多是站在以夫妻为中心的家庭的角度讲abolition,我以为会多讲讲我们这种想要废除以亲子关系为核心的家庭的人。
2 有用 把沼王作为方法 2023-03-31 23:50:05 美国
来自导师的安利 这才是激进女性主义该有的样子