The Anti-Social Family

The Anti-Social Family
ISBN-10
1781687609
ISBN-13
9781781687604
Category
Social Science
Pages
174
Language
English
Published
2015-01-27
Publisher
Verso Books
Authors
Michele Barrett, Mary McIntosh

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.

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